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Performing masculinity / edited by Rainer Emig, Antony Rowland.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Houndmills, Basingstoke ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.Description: xiii, 240 p. : illISBN:
  • 9780230577985 (alk. paper)
  • 0230577989 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.43 EMI-P
Contents:
Introduction / Rainer Emig and Antony Rowland -- Touching Byron: masculinity and the celebrity body in the romantic period / Diego Saglia -- Turning into subjects: the male dancer in romantic ballet / Gerald Siegmund -- Industrial heroes: Elizabeth Gaskell and Charlotte Brontë's constructions of the masculine / Jessica L. Malay -- Low on assurance: the troubled masculinity of Victorian comedy / Rainer Emig -- Performing imperial masculinities: the discourse and practice of cricket / Anthony Bateman -- "A Stoat Came to Tea": camp poetics and masculinity / Antony Rowland -- Lethal enclosure: masculinity under fire in James Jones's The thin red line / David Boulting -- In their fathers' footsteps: performing masculinity and fatherhood in the work of Les Murray and Michael Ondaatje / Katharine Burkitt -- Seeding Asian masculinities in the U.S. landscape: representations of men's lives in Asian American literature / Wendy Ho -- From flam rock to cock rock: revis(it)ing rock masculinities in recent feature films / Lucia Krämer -- Histories of violence : fairytales of identity and masculinity in Martin McDonagh's The lieutenant of Inishmore and The pillowman / Wolfgang Funk -- "Ghosts of Sparta": performing the God of War's virtual masculinity / Sven Schmalful.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Rainer Emig and Antony Rowland -- Touching Byron: masculinity and the celebrity body in the romantic period / Diego Saglia -- Turning into subjects: the male dancer in romantic ballet / Gerald Siegmund -- Industrial heroes: Elizabeth Gaskell and Charlotte Brontë's constructions of the masculine / Jessica L. Malay -- Low on assurance: the troubled masculinity of Victorian comedy / Rainer Emig -- Performing imperial masculinities: the discourse and practice of cricket / Anthony Bateman -- "A Stoat Came to Tea": camp poetics and masculinity / Antony Rowland -- Lethal enclosure: masculinity under fire in James Jones's The thin red line / David Boulting -- In their fathers' footsteps: performing masculinity and fatherhood in the work of Les Murray and Michael Ondaatje / Katharine Burkitt -- Seeding Asian masculinities in the U.S. landscape: representations of men's lives in Asian American literature / Wendy Ho -- From flam rock to cock rock: revis(it)ing rock masculinities in recent feature films / Lucia Krämer -- Histories of violence : fairytales of identity and masculinity in Martin McDonagh's The lieutenant of Inishmore and The pillowman / Wolfgang Funk -- "Ghosts of Sparta": performing the God of War's virtual masculinity / Sven Schmalful.

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