03326nam 2200781Ia 450 991082641020332120230207225442.01-281-36789-397866113678931-4039-7711-910.1057/9781403977113(CKB)1000000000342735(SSID)ssj0000201190(PQKBManifestationID)11954369(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000201190(PQKBWorkID)10231899(PQKB)11174079(DE-He213)978-1-4039-7711-3(MiAaPQ)EBC307970(Au-PeEL)EBL307970(CaPaEBR)ebr10135422(CaONFJC)MIL136789(OCoLC)560461262(EXLCZ)99100000000034273520050509d2005 uy 0engurnn#008mamaatxtccrMen beyond desire[electronic resource] manhood, sex, and violation in American literature /David Greven1st ed.New York Palgrave Macmillan20051 online resource (XII, 294 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph1-349-53107-3 1-4039-6911-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-286) and index.This book explores the construction of male sexuality in nineteenth-century American literature and comes up with some startling findings. Far from desiring heterosexual sex and wishing to bond with other men through fraternity, the male protagonists of classic American literature mainly want to be left alone. Greven makes the claim that American men, eschewing both marriage and male friendship, strive to remain emotionally and sexually inviolate. Examining the work of traditional authors - Hawthorne, Poe, Melville, Cooper, Irving, Stowe - Greven discovers highly untraditional and transgressive representations of desire and sexuality. Objects of desire from both women and other men, the inviolate males discussed in this study overturn established gendered and sexual categories, just as this study overturns archetypal assumptions about American manhood and American literature.American literature19th centuryHistory and criticismMasculinity in literatureSocial isolation in literatureSelf-control in literatureChastity in literatureSex role in literatureViolence in literatureDesire in literatureSex in literatureMen in literatureAmerican literatureHistory and criticism.Masculinity in literature.Social isolation in literature.Self-control in literature.Chastity in literature.Sex role in literature.Violence in literature.Desire in literature.Sex in literature.Men in literature.810.9/353Greven David1168107MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910826410203321Men beyond desire4057691UNINA