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Author:

Devlin, Athena, 1967-

Title:

Between profits and primitivism : shaping white middle-class masculinity in the United States, 1880-1917 / Athena Devlin.

Publisher:

Routledge,

Copyright Date:

2005

Description:

xi, 174 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Dreiser, Theodore,--1871-1945--Men.--Men.
American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
Masculinity in literature
American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
American prose literature--History and criticism.
Middle class men in literature
Human body in literature
Men, White, in literature
Men in literature

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-169) and index.

Contents:

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.

Series:

Literary criticism and cultural theory

ISBN:

9780415970778
0415970776 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)56319875

LCCN:

2004018886

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)