LEADER 04191nam 2200709Ia 450 001 9910462920803321 005 20220114025516.0 010 $a0-8122-0323-2 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812203233 035 $a(CKB)2670000000418161 035 $a(OCoLC)859162276 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10748332 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000981022 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11547058 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000981022 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10969889 035 $a(PQKB)10097472 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442022 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse29217 035 $a(DE-B1597)449167 035 $a(OCoLC)979591622 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812203233 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442022 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10748332 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682379 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000418161 100 $a20030114d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aHenry James and the suspense of masculinity$b[electronic resource] /$fLeland S. Person 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2003 215 $a1 online resource 311 0 $a1-322-51097-0 311 0 $a0-8122-3725-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [193]-202) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction: Henry James And The Plural Terms Of Masculinity --$t1. Configuring Male Desire And Identity In Roderick Hudson --$t2 Nursing The Thunderbolt Of Manhood In The American --$t3 Sheathing The Sword Of Gentle Manhood In The Portrait Of A Lady --$t4 Reconstructing Masculinity In The Bostonians --$t5 Deploying Homo-Aesthetic Desire In The Tales Of Writers And Artists --$t6 The Paradox Of Masochistic Manhood In The Golden Bowl --$tNotes --$tWorks Cited --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aUsing 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. 606 $aHomosexuality and literature$zUnited States 606 $aMasculinity in literature 606 $aMen in literature 606 $aPsychological fiction, American$xHistory and criticism 606 $aSex in literature 606 $aSex role in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aHomosexuality and literature 615 0$aMasculinity in literature. 615 0$aMen in literature. 615 0$aPsychological fiction, American$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aSex in literature. 615 0$aSex role in literature. 676 $a813/.4 700 $aPerson$b Leland S$01037786 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910462920803321 996 $aHenry James and the suspense of masculinity$92458955 997 $aUNINA