03548nam 2200733 a 450 991078214270332120200520144314.00-8173-8182-1(CKB)1000000000537495(EBL)438167(OCoLC)320324076(SSID)ssj0000197392(PQKBManifestationID)11172306(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000197392(PQKBWorkID)10162167(PQKB)10882793(MdBmJHUP)muse8871(Au-PeEL)EBL438167(CaPaEBR)ebr10237181(MiAaPQ)EBC438167(EXLCZ)99100000000053749520030819d2004 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrA man's game[electronic resource] masculinity and the anti-aesthetics of American literary naturalism /John DudleyTuscaloosa University of Alabama Pressc20041 online resource (233 p.)Studies in American literary realism and naturalismOriginally presented as author's thesis (doctoral)--Tulane University, 2001.0-8173-1347-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-215) and index.Inside and outside the ring : the establishment of a masculinist aesthetic sensibility -- "Subtle brotherhood" in Stephen Crane's tales of adventure : alienation, anxiety, and the rites of manhood -- "Beauty unmans me" : diminished manhood and the leisure class in Norris and Wharton -- "A man only in form" : the roots of naturalism in African American literature.Demonstrates how concepts of masculinity shaped the aesthetic foundations of literary naturalism. A Man's Game explores the development of American literary naturalism as it relates to definitions of manhood in many of the movement's key texts and the aesthetic goals of writers such as Stephen Crane, Jack London, Frank Norris, Edith Wharton, Charles Chestnutt, and James Weldon Johnson. John Dudley argues that in the climate of the late 19th century, when these authors were penning their major works, literary endeavors were widely viewed as frivolous, the work of ladies for ladies, who compriseStudies in American literary realism and naturalism.American fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismNaturalism in literatureAmerican fictionMale authorsHistory and criticismAmerican fictionAfrican American authorsHistory and criticismAfrican American menIntellectual lifeAfrican American men in literatureMasculinity in literatureAesthetics, AmericanMen in literatureAmerican fictionHistory and criticism.Naturalism in literature.American fictionMale authorsHistory and criticism.American fictionAfrican American authorsHistory and criticism.African American menIntellectual life.African American men in literature.Masculinity in literature.Aesthetics, American.Men in literature.813/.50912Dudley John1965-1572040MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910782142703321A man's game3846646UNINA