Between profits and primitivism
Subtitle: shaping white middle-class masculinity in the United States, 1880-1917
By: by Athena Devlin.
Series: Literary criticism and cultural theory
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 174
Subjects: Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 -- Characters -- Men; American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Masculinity in literature; American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; American prose literature -- History and criticism; Middle class men in literature; Body, Human, in literature; Men, White, in literature; Men in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Managing the middle-class male body in the age of efficiency; title: The male body and the market economy : valuating Dreiser's Cowperwood; title: Male hysteria and the gendering of the subconscious; title: Shapes that haunt the dusk : masculinity and the supernatural experience in fiction.