Performing masculinity / edited by Rainer Emig, Antony Rowland.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Emig, Rainer, 1964-

Rowland, Antony.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Masculinity in literature.

Literature, Modern--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Masculinity in popular culture.

Physical Description:

xiii, 240 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Contents:

Introduction / Rainer Emig and Antony Rowland

Touching Byron: masculinity and the celebrity body in the romantic period / Diego Saglia

Turning into subjects: the male dancer in romantic ballet / Gerald Siegmund

Industrial heroes: Elizabeth Gaskell and Charlotte Brontë's constructions of the masculine / Jessica L. Malay

Low on assurance: the troubled masculinity of Victorian comedy / Rainer Emig

Performing imperial masculinities: the discourse and practice of cricket / Anthony Bateman

"A Stoat Came to Tea": camp poetics and masculinity / Antony Rowland

Lethal enclosure: masculinity under fire in James Jones's The thin red line / David Boulting

In their fathers' footsteps: performing masculinity and fatherhood in the work of Les Murray and Michael Ondaatje / Katharine Burkitt

Seeding Asian masculinities in the U.S. landscape: representations of men's lives in Asian American literature / Wendy Ho

From flam rock to cock rock: revis(it)ing rock masculinities in recent feature films / Lucia Krämer

Histories of violence : fairytales of identity and masculinity in Martin McDonagh's The lieutenant of Inishmore and The pillowman / Wolfgang Funk

"Ghosts of Sparta": performing the God of War's virtual masculinity / Sven Schmalful.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230577985

0230577989

OCLC:

468976197

Publisher Number:

99938150782