LEADER 03548nam 2200733 a 450 001 9910782142703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8173-8182-1 035 $a(CKB)1000000000537495 035 $a(EBL)438167 035 $a(OCoLC)320324076 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000197392 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11172306 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000197392 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10162167 035 $a(PQKB)10882793 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse8871 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL438167 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10237181 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC438167 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000537495 100 $a20030819d2004 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA man's game$b[electronic resource] $emasculinity and the anti-aesthetics of American literary naturalism /$fJohn Dudley 210 $aTuscaloosa $cUniversity of Alabama Press$dc2004 215 $a1 online resource (233 p.) 225 1 $aStudies in American literary realism and naturalism 300 $aOriginally presented as author's thesis (doctoral)--Tulane University, 2001. 311 $a0-8173-1347-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [205]-215) and index. 327 $aInside and outside the ring : the establishment of a masculinist aesthetic sensibility -- "Subtle brotherhood" in Stephen Crane's tales of adventure : alienation, anxiety, and the rites of manhood -- "Beauty unmans me" : diminished manhood and the leisure class in Norris and Wharton -- "A man only in form" : the roots of naturalism in African American literature. 330 $aDemonstrates how concepts of masculinity shaped the aesthetic foundations of literary naturalism. A Man's Game explores the development of American literary naturalism as it relates to definitions of manhood in many of the movement's key texts and the aesthetic goals of writers such as Stephen Crane, Jack London, Frank Norris, Edith Wharton, Charles Chestnutt, and James Weldon Johnson. John Dudley argues that in the climate of the late 19th century, when these authors were penning their major works, literary endeavors were widely viewed as frivolous, the work of ladies for ladies, who comprise 410 0$aStudies in American literary realism and naturalism. 606 $aAmerican fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aNaturalism in literature 606 $aAmerican fiction$xMale authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican fiction$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAfrican American men$xIntellectual life 606 $aAfrican American men in literature 606 $aMasculinity in literature 606 $aAesthetics, American 606 $aMen in literature 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aNaturalism in literature. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xMale authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAfrican American men$xIntellectual life. 615 0$aAfrican American men in literature. 615 0$aMasculinity in literature. 615 0$aAesthetics, American. 615 0$aMen in literature. 676 $a813/.50912 700 $aDudley$b John$f1965-$01572040 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910782142703321 996 $aA man's game$93846646 997 $aUNINA