Performing masculinity
By: edited by Rainer Emig, Antony Rowland.
Contributors: Emig, Rainer, 1964-; Rowland, Antony.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230577985
Subjects: Masculinity in literature; Literature, Modern -- History and criticism; Masculinity in popular culture
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Rainer Emig and Antony Rowland; title: Touching Byron: masculinity and the celebrity body in the romantic period / Diego Saglia; title: Turning into subjects: the male dancer in romantic ballet / Gerald Siegmund; title: Industrial heroes: Elizabeth Gaskell and Charlotte Brontë's constructions of the masculine / Jessica L. Malay; title: Low on assurance: the troubled masculinity of Victorian comedy / Rainer Emig; title: Performing imperial masculinities: the discourse and practice of cricket / Anthony Bateman; title: "A Stoat Came to Tea": camp poetics and masculinity / Antony Rowland; title: Lethal enclosure: masculinity under fire in James Jones's The thin red line / David Boulting; title: In their fathers' footsteps: performing masculinity and fatherhood in the work of Les Murray and Michael Ondaatje / Katharine Burkitt; title: Seeding Asian masculinities in the U.S. landscape: representations of men's lives in Asian American literature / Wendy Ho; title: From flam rock to cock rock: revis(it)ing rock masculinities in recent feature films / Lucia Krämer; title: Histories of violence : fairytales of identity and masculinity in Martin McDonagh's The lieutenant of Inishmore and The pillowman / Wolfgang Funk; title: "Ghosts of Sparta": performing the God of War's virtual masculinity / Sven Schmalful.