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Boys don't cry? : rethinking narratives of masculinity and emotion in the U.S.

Title: Boys don't cry? : rethinking narratives of masculinity and emotion in the U.S. / edited by Milette Shamir and Jennifer Travis.
Publication: New York : Columbia University Press, 2002.

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xiii, 288 pages; 24 cm

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Contents

Introduction / Milette Shamir and Jennifer Travis -- 1. What Feels an American?: Evident Selves and Alienable Emotions in the New Man's World / Evan Carton -- 2. Loving with a Vengeance: Wieland, Familicide and the Crisis of Masculinity in the Early Nation / Elizabeth Barnes -- 3. "The Manliest Relations to Men": Thoreau on Privacy, Intimacy, and Writing / Milette Shamir -- 4. Manly Tears: Men's Elegies for Children in Nineteenth-Century America / Eric Haralson -- 5. How to be a (Sentimental) Race Man: Mourning and Passing in W. E. B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk / Ryan Schneider -- 6. The Law of the Heart: Emotional Injury and Its Fictions / Jennifer Travis -- 7. "The Sort of Thing You Should Not Admit": Hemingway's Aesthetics of Emotional Restraint / Thomas Strychacz -- 8. Road Work: Rereading Kerouac's Midcentury Melodrama of Beset Sonhood / Stephen Davenport -- 9. Men's Tears and the Roles of Melodrama / Tom Lutz --
10. Men's Liberation, Men's Wounds: Emotion, Sexuality, and the Reconstruction of Masculinity in the 1970s / Sally Robinson -- 11. The Politics of Feeling: Men, Masculinity, and Mourning on the Capital Mall / Judith Newton.

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2001047444

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Columbia University Libraries