04351oam 2200769Ia 450 991082597350332120240418030104.00-8122-0323-210.9783/9780812203233(CKB)2670000000418161(OCoLC)859162276(CaPaEBR)ebrary10748332(SSID)ssj0000981022(PQKBManifestationID)11547058(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000981022(PQKBWorkID)10969889(PQKB)10097472(MdBmJHUP)muse29217(DE-B1597)449167(OCoLC)979591622(DE-B1597)9780812203233(Au-PeEL)EBL3442022(CaPaEBR)ebr10748332(CaONFJC)MIL682379(MiAaPQ)EBC3442022(EXLCZ)99267000000041816120030114d2003 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierHenry James and the suspense of masculinity /Leland S. Person1st ed.Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Presscop. 20031 online resource1-322-51097-0 0-8122-3725-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-202) and index.Front matter --Contents --Introduction: Henry James And The Plural Terms Of Masculinity --1. Configuring Male Desire And Identity In Roderick Hudson --2 Nursing The Thunderbolt Of Manhood In The American --3 Sheathing The Sword Of Gentle Manhood In The Portrait Of A Lady --4 Reconstructing Masculinity In The Bostonians --5 Deploying Homo-Aesthetic Desire In The Tales Of Writers And Artists --6 The Paradox Of Masochistic Manhood In The Golden Bowl --Notes --Works Cited --Index --AcknowledgmentsUsing insights from feminist studies, men's studies, and gay and queer studies, Leland Person examines Henry James's subversion of male identity and the challenges he poses to conventional constructs of heterosexual masculinity. Sexual and gender categories proliferated in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and Person argues that James exploited the taxonomic confusion of the times to experiment with alternative sexual and gender identities. In contrast to scholars who have tried to give a single label to James's sexuality, Person argues that establishing James's gender and sexual identity is less important than examining the novelist's shaping of male characters and his richly metaphorical language as an experiment in gender and sexual theorizing. Just as an author's creations can be animated by his or her own sexuality, Person contends, James's sexuality may be most usefully understood as something primarily aesthetic and textual. As Person shows in chapters devoted to some of this author's best-known novels-Roderick Hudson, The American, The Portrait of a Lady, The Bostonians, The Ambassadors, The Golden Bowl-James conducts a series of experiments in gender/sexual construction and deconstruction. He delights in positioning his male characters so that their gender and sexual orientations are reversed, ambiguous, and even multiple. Ultimately, he keeps male identity in suspense by pluralizing male subjectivity.Homosexualitat i literaturalemacHomes en la literaturalemacNovel·la psicològica anglesaHistòria i críticalemacMasculinitat en la literaturalemacRol sexual en la literaturalemacLlibres electrònicsCultural Studies.Gay Studies.Gender Studies.Lesbian Studies.Literature.Queer Studies.Homosexualitat i literaturaHomes en la literaturaNovel·la psicològica anglesaHistòria i críticaMasculinitat en la literaturaRol sexual en la literatura813/.4Person Leland S1637001MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910825973503321Henry James and the suspense of masculinity3978566UNINA