A Mans Game : Masculinity and the Anti-Aesthetics of American Literary Naturalism (Amer Lit Realism & Naturalism)
by Cynthia J. Davis
Category: Literary Criticism

Demonstrates the importance of physical pain to late-nineteenth century aesthetic sensibilities and, in particular, to American literary realism with a focus on the work of William Dean Howells, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Mark Twain, and Charles Chesnutt.