Between profits and primitivism : shaping white middle-class masculinity in the United States, 1880-1917 / Athena Devlin.
Material type: TextSeries: Literary criticism and cultural theoryPublication details: New York : Routledge, 2005.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 174 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
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- online resource
- 9781135876845
- 1135876843
- 9780415514750
- 0415514754
- 9780203491225
- 020349122X
- 9781135876791
- 1135876797
- 9781135876838
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- Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 -- Characters -- Men
- Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945
- 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
- Human body in literature
- Men, White, in literature
- Men in literature
- Roman américain -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique
- Masculinité dans la littérature
- Roman américain -- 19e siècle -- Histoire et critique
- Prose américaine -- Histoire et critique
- Hommes de la classe moyenne dans la littérature
- Corps humain dans la littérature
- Blancs dans la littérature
- Hommes dans la littérature
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General
- American fiction
- American prose literature
- Human body in literature
- Masculinity in literature
- Men in literature
- Men, White, in literature
- Middle class men in literature
- Literatur
- Männlichkeit Motiv
- Mittelstand Motiv
- USA
- Weiße (Motiv)
- 1800-1999
- 813/.509353 22
- PS374.M37 D488 2005eb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-169) and index.
Managing the middle-class male body in the age of efficiency -- The male body and the market economy : valuating Dreiser's Cowperwood -- Male hysteria and the gendering of the subconscious -- Shapes that haunt the dusk : masculinity and the supernatural experience in fiction.
Print version record.
Between 1800 and the First World War, white middle-class men were depicted various forms of literature as weak and nervous. This book explores cultural writings dedicated to the physical and mental health of the male subject, showing that men have mobilized gender constructions repeatedly and self-consciously to position themselves within the culture. Aiming to join those who offer nuanced accounts of masculinity, Devlin investigates the various and changing interests white manhood was positioned to cultivate and the ways elite white men used ""their own, "" so to speak, to promote larger ag
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