Between profits and primitivism : shaping white middle-class masculinity in the United States, 1880-1917 / Athena Devlin.

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Devlin, Athena, 1967-

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TextSeries: Literary criticism and cultural theoryPublication details: New York : Routledge, 2005.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 174 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781135876845
1135876843
9780415514750
0415514754
9780203491225
020349122X
9781135876791
1135876797
9781135876838
1135876835

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Between profits and primitivism.DDC classification:

813/.509353 22

LOC classification:

PS374.M37 D488 2005eb

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Contents:

Managing the middle-class male body in the age of efficiency -- The male body and the market economy : valuating Dreiser's Cowperwood -- Male hysteria and the gendering of the subconscious -- Shapes that haunt the dusk : masculinity and the supernatural experience in fiction.

Summary: Between 1800 and the First World War, white middle-class men were depicted various forms of literature as weak and nervous. This book explores cultural writings dedicated to the physical and mental health of the male subject, showing that men have mobilized gender constructions repeatedly and self-consciously to position themselves within the culture. Aiming to join those who offer nuanced accounts of masculinity, Devlin investigates the various and changing interests white manhood was positioned to cultivate and the ways elite white men used ""their own, "" so to speak, to promote larger ag

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-169) and index.

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Between 1800 and the First World War, white middle-class men were depicted various forms of literature as weak and nervous. This book explores cultural writings dedicated to the physical and mental health of the male subject, showing that men have mobilized gender constructions repeatedly and self-consciously to position themselves within the culture. Aiming to join those who offer nuanced accounts of masculinity, Devlin investigates the various and changing interests white manhood was positioned to cultivate and the ways elite white men used ""their own, "" so to speak, to promote larger ag

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