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Between Profits and Primitivism : Shaping White Middle-Class Masculinity in the U.S., 1880-1917.

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-c...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Devlin, Athena, 1967-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012.
Colección:Literary criticism and cultural theory.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.