Validating Bachelorhood: Audience, Patriarchy and Charles Brockden Brown's Editorship of the Monthly Magazine and American Review

ISBN-13: 9780415971782 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 140 str.

Scott Slawinski

Opis

This book explores images of single and married men in C.B. Brown's Monthly Magazine and concludes that Brown used his periodical as a vehicle for validating bachelorhood as a viable alternative form of masculinity.

Recenzje

'Slawinski's book is well written and intelligent, useful both for the lesson it provides in how to derive meaning from the often-ignored late eighteenth-century periodical literature and its call for greater attention to masculinity in history and literature.' – The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Women Need Not Read On: Magazines in the Early Republic and the Gendered Audience of the Monthly Magazine  3. Constructions of Masculinity and Brown's Male Reader  4. Marriage and Bachelorhood: Fiction in the Monthly Magazine  5. Prospects

O autorze

Scott Slawinski is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Western Michigan University.