LEADER 03553nam 2200649Ia 450 001 9910820809703321 005 20240516103718.0 010 $a1-58729-440-0 035 $a(CKB)1000000000447529 035 $a(EBL)837056 035 $a(OCoLC)56109469 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000196280 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11178633 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000196280 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10142636 035 $a(PQKB)11582675 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC837056 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse12548 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL837056 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10354647 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000447529 100 $a20020927d2003 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMale sexuality under surveillance $ethe office in American literature /$fGraham Thompson 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aIowa City $cUniversity of Iowa Press$dc2003 215 $a1 online resource (271 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-87745-848-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [207]-243) and index. 327 $aAcknowledgments; 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 Incorporation 327 $a5. "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; Index 330 $aMale 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 combin 606 $aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism 606 $aOffices in literature 606 $aSex (Psychology) in literature 606 $aSex in literature 606 $aMen in literature 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aOffices in literature. 615 0$aSex (Psychology) in literature. 615 0$aSex in literature. 615 0$aMen in literature. 676 $a813.009355 676 $a813/.009/355 700 $aThompson$b Graham$f1965-$0781130 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910820809703321 996 $aMale sexuality under surveillance$93990491 997 $aUNINA