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A man's game : masculinity and the anti-aesthetics of American literary naturalism / / John Dudley



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Autore: Dudley John <1965-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: A man's game : masculinity and the anti-aesthetics of American literary naturalism / / John Dudley Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2004
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (233 p.)
Disciplina: 813/.50912
Soggetto topico: American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
Naturalism in literature
American fiction - Male authors - History and criticism
American fiction - African American authors - History and criticism
African American men - Intellectual life
African American men in literature
Masculinity in literature
Aesthetics, American
Men in literature
Note generali: Originally presented as author's thesis (doctoral)--Tulane University, 2001.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-215) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Inside 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.
Sommario/riassunto: Demonstrates 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
Titolo autorizzato: A man's game  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8173-8182-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910816751803321
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Serie: Studies in American literary realism and naturalism.