03553nam 2200649Ia 450 991082080970332120240516103718.01-58729-440-0(CKB)1000000000447529(EBL)837056(OCoLC)56109469(SSID)ssj0000196280(PQKBManifestationID)11178633(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000196280(PQKBWorkID)10142636(PQKB)11582675(MiAaPQ)EBC837056(MdBmJHUP)muse12548(Au-PeEL)EBL837056(CaPaEBR)ebr10354647(EXLCZ)99100000000044752920020927d2003 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrMale sexuality under surveillance the office in American literature /Graham Thompson1st ed.Iowa City University of Iowa Pressc20031 online resource (271 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-87745-848-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-243) and index.Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One: Managing Desire; 1."Dead letters . . . dead men?":The Rhetoric of the Oce in Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener"; 2. "And that paint is a thing that will bear looking into":The Business of Sexuality in The Rise of Silas Lapham; 3. "A dream more romantic than scarlet pagodas by a silver sea":The Businessman and the Fairy Child in Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt; Part Two: Postwar Unsettlement; 4. "The spirit of work weaves a magic wand":From Babbittry to Gray Flannelvia Tropical Incorporation5. "Opaque glass bricks":Sloan Wilson's Gray Flannel Man in the Queer Organization 6. "I ascend like a condor,while falling to pieces":Fear, Paranoia, and Self-Pity in Joseph Heller's Something Happened; Part Three: A Word for Windows; 7. "My own plein-air Arnality bared to the sky":Shoelaces, Social Energy, and sexuality in Nicholson Baker's The Mezzanine and The Fermata; 8. "Frank Lloyd Oop":Microserfs, Modern Migration, and the Architecture of the 1990's; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; IndexMale Sexuality under Surveillance is a lively, intelligent, and expertly argued analysis of the construction of male sexuality in the business office. Graham Thompson interweaves three main threads: a historicized cultural analysis of the development of the modern business office from its beginnings in the early nineteenth century to the present day, a Foucauldian discussion of the office as the site of various disciplinary practices, and a queer-theoretical discussion of the textualization of the gay male body as a device for producing a taxonomy of male-male relations. The combinAmerican fictionHistory and criticismOffices in literatureSex (Psychology) in literatureSex in literatureMen in literatureAmerican fictionHistory and criticism.Offices in literature.Sex (Psychology) in literature.Sex in literature.Men in literature.813.009355813/.009/355Thompson Graham1965-781130MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910820809703321Male sexuality under surveillance3990491UNINA