03447oam 2200781I 450 991078598030332120230617023340.01-135-87683-51-135-87684-30-203-49122-X10.4324/9780203491225 (CKB)2670000000259548(EBL)183032(OCoLC)815644491(SSID)ssj0000757605(PQKBManifestationID)11517286(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000757605(PQKBWorkID)10771676(PQKB)10912259(MiAaPQ)EBC183032(Au-PeEL)EBL183032(CaPaEBR)ebr10611608(CaONFJC)MIL761297(OCoLC)812911576(EXLCZ)99267000000025954820130331d2005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBetween profits and primitivism shaping white middle-class masculinity in the United States, 1880-1917 /Athena DevlinNew York :Routledge,2005.1 online resource (179 p.)Literary criticism and cultural theoryLiterary criticism and cultural theoryFirst issued in paperback 2011.0-415-51475-4 0-415-97077-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-169) and index.Managing the middle-class male body in the age of efficiency -- The male body and the market economy : valuating Dreiser's Cowperwood -- Male hysteria and the gendering of the subconscious -- Shapes that haunt the dusk : masculinity and the supernatural experience in fiction.Between 1800 and the First World War, white middle-class men were depicted various forms of literature as weak and nervous. This book explores cultural writings dedicated to the physical and mental health of the male subject, showing that men have mobilized gender constructions repeatedly and self-consciously to position themselves within the culture. Aiming to join those who offer nuanced accounts of masculinity, Devlin investigates the various and changing interests white manhood was positioned to cultivate and the ways elite white men used ""their own,"" so to speak, to promote larger agLiterary Criticism and Cultural TheoryAmerican fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismMasculinity in literatureAmerican fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismAmerican prose literatureHistory and criticismMiddle class men in literatureHuman body in literatureMen, White, in literatureMen in literatureAmerican fictionHistory and criticism.Masculinity in literature.American fictionHistory and criticism.American prose literatureHistory and criticism.Middle class men in literature.Human body in literature.Men, White, in literature.Men in literature.813/.509353Devlin Athena1967-,1536726MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910785980303321Between profits and primitivism3785627UNINA