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Male sexuality under surveillance : the office in American literature /

Male Sexuality under Surveillance is a lively, intelligent, and expertly argued analysis of the construction of male sexuality in the business office. Graham Thompson interweaves three main threads: a historicized cultural analysis of the development of the modern business office from its beginnings...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Thompson, Graham, 1965-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2003.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The rhetoric of the office in Melville's "Bartleby, the scrivener"
  • The business of sexuality in The rise of Silas Lapham
  • The businessman and the fairy child in Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt
  • From Babbittry to Gray flannel via tropical incoporation
  • Sloan Wilson's Gray flannel man in the queer organization
  • Fear, paranoia, and self-pity in Joseph Heller's Something happened
  • Shoelaces, social energy, and sexuality in Nicholson Baker's The mezzanine and The fermata
  • Microserfs, modern migration, and the architecture of the 1990s.