Title: Monumental anxieties
First published: 1997
Description: Recent gender-based scholarship on nineteenth-century American literature has established male authors' crucial awareness of the competition from popular women writers. Critical work in gay studies and queer theory has stressed the importance in canonical American literature of homoerotic relations between men, even before "homosexuality" became codified at the end of the century.

Scott Derrick draws on these insights to explore an ongoing compositional crisis in which a series of male authors struggle to accommodate identity-threatening desires, and yet consolidate literature as a masculine and heterosexual enterprise.
Subjects: History and criticism, American fiction, History, Masculinity in literature, Male authors, Sex role in literature, Gay men in literature, Desire in literature, Homosexuality and literature, Women and literature, Gender identity in literature, Self in literature, Histoire, Écrits d'hommes américains, Désir dans la littérature, Moi (Psychologie) dans la littérature, Identité sexuelle dans la littérature, Roman américain, Geschlechterrolle, Masculinité dans la littérature, Geschichte 1800-1925, Geschlechterverhältnis, American, LITERARY CRITICISM, Männlichkeit, Homosexualité et littérature, Homosexualität, Femmes et littérature, Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature, Roman, Histoire et critique, General, Homosexuels masculins dans la littérature, American fiction, history and criticism, 19th century, Men authors
Places: United States
Time periods: 19th century
LC classification: PS374.H63 D47 1997