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Bachelors, manhood, and the novel, 1850-1925 /
"Katherine Snyder's study explores the significance of the bachelor narrator, a prevalent but little recognized figure in premodernist and modernist fiction by male authors, including Hawthorne, James, Conrad, Ford, and, Fitzgerald. Snyder demonstrates that bachelors functioned in cultural...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, U.K. ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1999.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Katherine Snyder's study explores the significance of the bachelor narrator, a prevalent but little recognized figure in premodernist and modernist fiction by male authors, including Hawthorne, James, Conrad, Ford, and, Fitzgerald. Snyder demonstrates that bachelors functioned in cultural and literary discourse as threshold figures who, by crossing the shifting, permeable boundaries of bourgeois domesticity, highlighted the limits of conventional masculinity. The very marginality of the figure, Snyder argues, effects a critique of gendered norms of manhood, while the symbolic function of marriage as a means of plot resolution is also made more complex by the presence of the single man. Bachelor figures made, moreover, an ideal narrative device for male authors who themselves occupied vexed cultural positions."--Jacket |
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| Notas: | Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Yale University. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 285 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-278) and index. |
| ISBN: | 051100642X 9780511006425 0511036841 9780511036842 9780521650465 0521650461 0511052073 9780511052071 0511117531 9780511117534 9780511485312 051148531X 1107116821 9781107116825 1280161965 9781280161964 0511150008 9780511150005 0511303033 9780511303036 |