Engendering men : the question of male feminist criticism / edited by Joseph A. Boone & Michael Cadden.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Boone, Joseph Allen.

Cadden, Michael.

Series:

RLE: Women, Feminism and Literature

Routledge library editions. Women, feminism and literature

Engendering men : the question of male feminist criticism ; . 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

American literature.

English literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

English literature.

Feminist literary criticism--English-speaking countries.

Feminist literary criticism.

Feminism and literature--English-speaking countries.

Feminism and literature.

Feminist literary criticism--Male authors.

Criticism--Authorship--Sex differences.

Criticism.

Women in literature.

Men in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (332 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Over the past several years, the question of men's relation to feminism has become a fiercely and sometimes bitterly debated subject. Engendering Men demonstrates the creative impact that feminist modes of inquiry have already had on a new generation of male critics.In the wake of feminism, many men have found it imperative to begin the task of retheorizing the male position in our culture. This collection of new essays brings together seventeen male critics whose work - on poetry, fiction, the Broadway stage, film and television, and broader cultural and psychoanalytic text

Contents:

Front Cover; New: Engendering Men; New: Copyright Page; Old: Engendering Men; Old:Copyright Page; Contents; Editors' Introduction; I. Men, Feminism, and Critical Institutions; 1. Of Me(n) and Feminism: Who(se)Is the Sex That Writes?: Joseph A. Boone; 2. Engendering F. O. M.: The Private Life of American Renaissance: Michael Cadden; 3. Redeeming the Phallus: Wallace Stevens, Frank Lentricchia, and the Politics of (Hetero)Sexuality:Lee Edelman; 4. ""The Lady Was a Litle Peruerse"": The ""Gender"" ofPersuasion in Puttenham's Arte of English Poesie: Jacques Lezra

5. Discipl(in)ing the Master, Mastering the Discipl(in)e:Erotonomies in James' Tales of Literary Life: Michael A. CooperII. Power, Panic, and Pathos in Male Culture; 6. Cowboys, Cadillacs, and Cosmonauts: Families, FilmGenres, and Technocultures: Andrew Ross; 7. ""Meat Out of the Eater"": Panic and Desire inAmerican Puritan Poetry: Walter Hughes; 8. Hester Prynne, C'est Moi: Nathaniel Hawthorneand the Anxieties of Gender: Robert K. Martin; 9. The Love-Master: Mark Seltzer; III. Cleaning Out the Closet(s)

10. Are We (Not) What We Are Becoming? ""Gay"" ""Identity,""""Gay Studies,"" and the Disciplining of Knowledge: Ed Cohen11. Wilde's Hard Labor and the Birth of Gay Reading: Wayne Koestenbaum; 12. Homo-Narcissism; or, Heterosexuality: Michael Warner; 13.Rebel Without a Closet: Christopher Castiglia; IV. Revolutionary Alliances: Call and Response Across Gender; 14. Caged Birds: Race and Gender in the Sonnet: MarcellusBlount; 15. Homelessness at Home: Placing Emily Dickinson in(Women's) History: Thomas Foster

16. Celibate Sisters-in-Revolution: Towards ReadingSylvia Townsend Wamer: Robert L. Caserio17. (In)Visible Alliances: Conflicting ""Chronicles"" of Feminism: Robert Vorlicky; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index

Notes:

First published in 1990 by Routledge.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-136-32194-2

1-283-58692-4

9786613899378

0-203-12055-8

1-136-32195-0

9780203120552

OCLC:

809314103