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Shakespeare and Masculinity in Southern Fiction : Faulkner, Simms, Page, and Dixon /

The book advances the idea that American, Southern, white, planter class authors have appropriated models and modes of masculinity from William Shakespeare. Keener traces the history of this appropriation and its attendant masculinities from authors as early as William Gilmore Simms, through Thomas...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Keener, Joseph B. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Subjects:
Literature.
British and Irish Literature.
Gender Studies.
Literary Theory.
North American Literature.
Poetry and Poetics.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
British literature.
Gender expression.
Gender identity.
Literature > Philosophy.
Literature, Modern > 20th century.
Poetry.
Sex (Psychology)
Sociology.
America > Literatures.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:The book advances the idea that American, Southern, white, planter class authors have appropriated models and modes of masculinity from William Shakespeare. Keener traces the history of this appropriation and its attendant masculinities from authors as early as William Gilmore Simms, through Thomas Nelson Page and Thomas Dixon, to William Faulkner.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (224 pages)
ISBN:9780230610194
DOI:10.1057/9780230610194