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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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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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.