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Men beyond desire : manhood, sex, and violation in American literature
- Title
- Men beyond desire : manhood, sex, and violation in American literature / David Greven.
- Author
- Greven, David.
- Publication
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Book/Text | Use in library | PS217.M37 G74 2005 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xii, 294 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- "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. In Men Beyond Desire, David 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, including Hawthorne, Poe, Melville, Cooper, Irving, and 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."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- 1800-1899
- American literature > 19th century > History and criticism
- Masculinity in literature
- Social isolation in literature
- Self-control in literature
- Chastity in literature
- Sex role in literature
- Violence in literature
- Desire in literature
- Sex in literature
- Men in literature
- American literature
- Erotik Motiv
- Mann Motiv
- Prosa
- Sexuelle Abstinenz Motiv
- Littérature américaine > 19e siècle > Thèmes, motifs
- Masculinité > Dans la littérature
- Sexualité > Dans la littérature
- Désir > Dans la littérature
- Violence > Dans la littérature
- Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature
- USA
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-286) and index.
- Contents
- Troubling our heads about Ichabod: "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, " classic American literature, and the sexual politics of homoscocial brotherhood -- Fear of Fanshawe: intransigence, desire, and scolarship in Hawthorne's first published novel -- Disturbing the sleep of bachelors: Natty Bumppo's brushes with desire -- "Madman!": Part one: madness and manhood in Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and The Blithedale Romance -- "Madman!": Part Two: madness and manhood in Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" -- "Bound in black morocco": manhood and enchantment in Uncle Tom's Cabin -- The afterlife of Uncle Tom's Cabin -- The angel must hnag: Billy Budd, Sailor, compulsory homosociality, and the handsom sailor -- Coda: Billy's fist.
- ISBN
- 1403969116
- 9781403969118
- 9781403977113
- 1403977119
- LCCN
- 2005047205
- 9781403969118
- OCLC
- ocm60414360
- 60414360
- SCSB-1375884
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library