Dangerous Masculinities [electronic resource] : Conrad, Hemingway, and Lawrence /
Strychacz, Thomas F.
Gainesville : University Press of Florida,
c2008.
In Dangerous Masculinities, Thomas Strychacz has as his goal nothing less than to turn scholarship on gender and modernism on its head. He focuses on the way some early twentieth-century writers portray masculinity as theatrical performance, and examines why scholars have generally overlooked that fact.
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Cover; Table of Contents v; Acknowledgments vii; Introduction 1; 1 Masculinity Studies, Professionalism, and the Rhetoric of Gender 14; 2 Making a Mess of Manhood in Hemingway's "The Capital of the World" 48; 3 The Construction of Hemingway: Masculine Style and Style-less Masculinity 73; 4 "Looking at Another Man's Work" Theaters of Masculinity in Conrad's Lord Jim 104; 5 "Show[ing] Himself as a Man": Constructions of Manhood in Conrad's Imperial Theater 128; 6 Leaving Our Sureties Behind: Lawrence's Rhetorical Play with Gender Roles 159
7 Doing a Double Take: Reading Gender Issues in Women in Love 1778 Conclusion: Lawrence, Positionality, and the Prospects for New Masculinity Studies 208; Notes 223; Bibliography 239; Index 255
In Dangerous Masculinities, Thomas Strychacz has as his goal nothing less than to turn scholarship on gender and modernism on its head. He focuses on the way some early twentieth-century writers portray masculinity as theatrical performance, and examines why scholars have generally overlooked that fact.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-253) and index.
Description based on print version record.
Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961
Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924
Gender identity in literature.
Men in literature.
Masculinity in literature.
Modernism (Literature)
American literature
English literature