Between Profits and Primitivism : Shaping White Middle-Class Masculinity in the U.S., 1880-1917

ISBN-13: 9780415970778 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 186 str.

Athena Devlin

Opis

Between 1800 and the first World War, white middle-class men were depicted in all kinds of literature as weak and nervous. This book explores the cultural writings dedicated to the physical and mental health of the male subject.

Spis treści

Introduction
1. Managing the Middle-Class Male Body in the Age of Efficiency
2. The Male Body and the Market Economy: the Case of Dreiser's Frank Cowperwood
3. Male Hysteria and the Gendering of the Subconscious
4. Shapes that Haunt the Dusk: Masculinity and the Supernatural Experience in Fiction

O autorze

Athena Devlin's work on gender has appeared in The Columbia Journal of American Studies and the anthology Women: Images and Realities. In addition to working on several public history projects and documentaries, she has taught American Studies and Literature at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she earned her Ph.D., and St. Francis College in Brooklyn.