American Guy : Masculinity in American Law and Literature /
Levmore, Saul,editor.
Nussbaum, Martha Craven,1947-editor.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Hemingway and the decline of manhood / Richard A. Posner -- On the trail with Melville: law and letters in the High Sierra / William Alsup -- Solitary man in American literature and law / J. Harvie Wilkinson III -- American stoic / Douglas G. Baird -- No balm in Gilead / Janice Rogers Brown -- Gatsby and tort / Robin L. West -- Struggles with manhood in Angle of repose / A. Howard Matz -- Manning up / Michael Warner -- Jewish men, Jewish lawyers: Roth's "Eli, the fanatic" and the question of Jewish masculinity in American law / Martha C. Nussbaum -- What is gay male femininity? / David M. Halperin -- Snitching, whistleblowing, and "Barn burning": loyalty in law, literature, and sports / Saul Levmore -- Bullies and martyrs: John Dos Passos and Adventures of a young man / Douglas P. Woodlock -- Empathy and masculinity in Harper Lee's To kill a mockingbird / Richard H. McAdams -- Fatherhood and crime in James Baldwin's If Beale Street could talk / Julie C. Suk -- Glimpses of a man: Barack Obama's autobiographical reflections / Glenda R. Carpio -- The indictment of the law and notions of masculinity in Ossie Davis' Purlie Victorious / Paxton J. Williams.
Law and literature.
Masculinity in literature.
Men
Masculinity