TY - BOOK AU - Dudley,John TI - A man's game: masculinity and the anti-aesthetics of American literary naturalism T2 - Studies in American literary realism and naturalism SN - 9780817381820 AV - PS374.N29 D83 2004eb U1 - 813/.50912 22 PY - 2004/// CY - Tuscaloosa PB - University of Alabama Press KW - American fiction KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - Naturalism in literature KW - Male authors KW - African American authors KW - African American men KW - Intellectual life KW - African American men in literature KW - Masculinity in literature KW - Aesthetics, American KW - Men in literature KW - Roman américain KW - 20e siècle KW - Histoire et critique KW - Naturalisme dans la littérature KW - Écrits d'hommes américains KW - Auteurs noirs américains KW - Hommes noirs américains KW - Vie intellectuelle KW - Hommes noirs américains dans la littérature KW - Masculinité dans la littérature KW - Esthétique américaine KW - Hommes dans la littérature KW - LITERARY CRITICISM KW - American KW - General KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Electronic books KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Tulane University, 2001; Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-215) and index; 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 N2 - Demonstrates how concepts of masculinity shaped the aesthetic foundations of literary naturalism. A Man's Game explores the development of American literary naturalism as it relates to definitions of manhood in many of the movement's key texts and the aesthetic goals of writers such as Stephen Crane, Jack London, Frank Norris, Edith Wharton, Charles Chestnutt, and James Weldon Johnson. John Dudley argues that in the climate of the late 19th century, when these authors were penning their major works, literary endeavors were widely viewed as frivolous, the work of ladies for ladies, who comprise UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=235074 ER -