Bachelors, manhood, and the novel, 1850-1925 / / Katherine V. Snyder

• Autore: Snyder Katherine V
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, UK ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 1999
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 285 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 813/.409352041
• Soggetto topico: American fiction - Male authors - History and criticism; Bachelors in literature; American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism; English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism; English fiction - Male authors - History and criticism; Masculinity in literature; First person narrative; Men in literature
• Note generali: Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Yale University.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 258-278) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Trouble in paradise: bachelors and bourgeois domesticity -- Susceptibility and the single man: the constitution of the bachelor invalid -- Artist and a bachelor: Henry James, mastery and the life of art -- Way of looking on: bachelor narration in Joseph Conrad's.
• Sommario/riassunto: Katherine Snyder's study explores the significance of the bachelor narrator, a prevalent but little-recognised figure in premodernist and modernist fiction by male authors, including Hawthorne, James, Conrad, Ford and Fitzgerald. Snyder demonstrates that bachelors functioned in cultural and literary discourse as threshold figures who, by crossing the shifting, permeable boundaries of bourgeois domesticity, highlighted the limits of conventional masculinity. The very marginality of the figure, Snyder argues, effects a critique of gendered norms of manhood, while the symbolic function of marriage as a means of plot resolution is also made more complex by the presence of the single man. Bachelor figures made, moreover, an ideal narrative device for male authors who themselves occupied vexed cultural positions. By attending to the gendered identities and relations at issue in these narratives, Snyder's study discloses the aesthetic and political underpinnings of the traditional canon of English and American male modernism.
• Titolo autorizzato: Bachelors, manhood, and the novel, 1850-1925
• ISBN: 1-107-11682-1; 0-511-00642-X; 1-280-16196-5; 0-511-11753-1; 0-511-15000-8; 0-511-30303-3; 0-511-48531-X; 0-511-05207-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910813345303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II