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Bachelors, manhood, and the novel, 1850-1925 / / Katherine V. Snyder [[electronic resource]]



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Autore: Snyder Katherine V. Visualizza persona
Titolo: Bachelors, manhood, and the novel, 1850-1925 / / Katherine V. Snyder [[electronic resource]] Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1999
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
Soggetto geografico: English-speaking countries Intellectual life 19th century
Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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.
Altri titoli varianti: Bachelors, Manhood, & the Novel, 1850-1925
Titolo autorizzato: Bachelors, manhood, and the novel, 1850-1925  Visualizza cluster
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.: 9910778868003321
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