Boys don't cry? : rethinking narratives of masculinity and emotion in the U.S. /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	NetLibrary, Inc
Other Authors:	Shamir, Milette, Travis, Jennifer
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Columbia University Press, [2002]
Subjects:	American literature > History and criticism. Men in literature. Men > United States > Attitudes. Masculinity in literature. Emotions in literature. Narration (Rhetoric) Men > Psychology. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

What feels an American? Evident selves and alienable emotions in the new man's world / Evan Carton
Loving with a vengeance: Wieland, familicide and the crisis of masculinity in the early nation / Elizabeth Barnes
"The manliest relations to men": Thoreau on privacy, intimacy, and writing / Milette Shamir
Manly tears: men's elegies for children in nineteenth-century America / Eric Haralson
How to be a (sentimental) race man: mourning and passing in W.E.B. Du Bois's The souls of Black folk / Ryan Schneider
The law of the heart: emotional injury and its fictions / Jennifer Travis
"The sort of thing you should not admit": Hemingway's aesthetics of emotional restraint / Thomas Strychacz
Road work: rereading Kerouac's midcentury melodrama of beset sonhood / Stephen Davenport
Men's tears and the roles of melodrama / Tom Lutz
Men's liberation, men's wounds: emotion, sexuality, and the reconstruction of masculinity in the 1970s / Sally Robinson
The politics of feeling: men, masculinity, and mourning on the Capital Mall / Judith Newton.