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Writing men : literary masculinities from Frankenstein to the new man /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Schoene-Harwood, Berthold
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2000]
Subjects:	English literature > History and criticism. Men in literature. Masculinity in literature.

Table of Contents:

About man-making : Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Kurtz's curse : Joseph Conrad's Heart of darkness
Grasping the boy : Henry James's The Turn of the screw
Boys armed with sticks : William Golding's Lord of the flies
The height of fashion : Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork orange
A pretty bad case of virginity : John Osborne's Look back in anger
The successful zombie : John Braine's Room at the top
Dams burst : Iain Banks's The Wasp factory
The exquisite negative of his sex : Angela Carter's The Passion of new Eve
This stiff state does not suit man : Alasdair Gray's 1982 Janine
The dark continent of masculinity : Irvine Welsh's Marabou stork nightmares
The u-turn of the father : Ian McEwan's The Child in time
Of ceremonies : Neil Bartlett's Ready to catch him should he fall.