LEADER 03326nam 2200781Ia 450 001 9910826410203321 005 20230207225442.0 010 $a1-281-36789-3 010 $a9786611367893 010 $a1-4039-7711-9 024 7 $a10.1057/9781403977113 035 $a(CKB)1000000000342735 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000201190 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11954369 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000201190 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10231899 035 $a(PQKB)11174079 035 $a(DE-He213)978-1-4039-7711-3 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC307970 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL307970 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10135422 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL136789 035 $a(OCoLC)560461262 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000342735 100 $a20050509d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#008mamaa 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMen beyond desire$b[electronic resource] $emanhood, sex, and violation in American literature /$fDavid Greven 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cPalgrave Macmillan$d2005 215 $a1 online resource (XII, 294 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-349-53107-3 311 $a1-4039-6911-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [227]-286) and index. 330 $aThis 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. 606 $aAmerican literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aMasculinity in literature 606 $aSocial isolation in literature 606 $aSelf-control in literature 606 $aChastity in literature 606 $aSex role in literature 606 $aViolence in literature 606 $aDesire in literature 606 $aSex in literature 606 $aMen in literature 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aMasculinity in literature. 615 0$aSocial isolation in literature. 615 0$aSelf-control in literature. 615 0$aChastity in literature. 615 0$aSex role in literature. 615 0$aViolence in literature. 615 0$aDesire in literature. 615 0$aSex in literature. 615 0$aMen in literature. 676 $a810.9/353 700 $aGreven$b David$01168107 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910826410203321 996 $aMen beyond desire$94057691 997 $aUNINA