A man's game
Subtitle: masculinity and the anti-aesthetics of American literary naturalism
By: John Dudley.
Series: Studies in American literary realism and naturalism
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
Subjects: American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Naturalism in literature.; American fiction -- Male authors -- History and criticism.; American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism.; African American men -- Intellectual life.; African American men in literature.; Masculinity in literature.; Aesthetics, American.; Men in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-215) and index.
Originally presented as author's thesis (doctoral)--Tulane University, 2001.
Table of contents: title: Inside and outside the ring : the establishment of a masculinist aesthetic sensibility; title: "Subtle brotherhood" in Stephen Crane's tales of adventure : alienation, anxiety, and the rites of manhood; title: "Beauty unmans me" : diminished manhood and the leisure class in Norris and Wharton; title: "A man only in form" : the roots of naturalism in African American literature.