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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Dudley, John, 1965-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2004]
Subjects:	Men in literature. Aesthetics, American. Masculinity in literature. African American men in literature. African American men > Intellectual life. American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism. American fiction > Male authors > History and criticism. Naturalism in literature. American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism. Electronic books.
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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.