A man's game : masculinity and the anti-aesthetics of American literary naturalism / John Dudley.

Demonstrates how concepts of masculinity shaped the aesthetic foundations of literary naturalism. A Man's Game explores the development of American literary naturalism as it relates to definitions of manhood in many of the movement's key texts and the aesthetic goals of writers such as Ste...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Dudley, John, 1965-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2004.
Series:	Studies in American literary realism and naturalism.
Subjects:	1900-1999 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. American fiction > History and criticism. LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General. Aesthetics, American African American men in literature African American men > Intellectual life American fiction American fiction > African American authors American fiction > Male authors Masculinity in literature Men in literature Naturalism in literature Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:

Inside and outside the ring : the establishment of a masculinist aesthetic sensibility
"Subtle brotherhood" in Stephen Crane's tales of adventure : alienation, anxiety, and the rites of manhood
"Beauty unmans me" : diminished manhood and the leisure class in Norris and Wharton
"A man only in form" : the roots of naturalism in African American literature.

A man's game : masculinity and the anti-aesthetics of American literary naturalism / John Dudley.

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