Synopses & Reviews
This interdisciplinary study analyses the ways in which signs of masculinity have been performed across a wide variety of contexts and genres -- including literature, classical ballet, sports, rock music, films and computer games -- from the early nineteenth century to the present day.
Synopsis
Notes on Contributors Foreword; J.Bristow Introduction; R.Emig and A.Rowland Touching Byron: Masculinity and the Celebrity Body in the Romantic Period; D.Saglia Turning into Subjects: The Male Dancer in Romantic Ballet; G.Siegmund Industrial Heroes: Elizabeth Gaskell and Charlotte Bront 's Constructions of the Masculine; J.L.Malay Low on Assurance: The Troubled Masculinity of Victorian Comedy; R.Emig Performing Imperial Masculinities: The Discourse and Practice of Cricket; A.Bateman 'A Stoat Came to Tea': Camp Poetics and Masculinity; A.Rowland Lethal Enclosure: Masculinity under Fire in James Jones's The Thin Red Line; D.Boulting In their Fathers' Footsteps: Performing Masculinity and Fatherhood in the Work of Les Murray and Michael Ondaatje; K.Burkitt Seeding Asian Masculinities in the U.S. Landscape: Representations of Men's Lives in Asian American Literature; W.Ho From Glam Rock to Cock Rock: Revis(it)ing Rock Masculinities in Recent Feature Films; L.Kr mer Histories of Violence - Fairytales of Identity and Masculinity in Martin McDonagh's The Lieutenant of Inishmore and The Pillowman; W.Funk 'Ghosts of Sparta': Performing the God of War's Virtual Masculinity; S.Schmalfu Notes Index
About the Author
RAINER EMIG is Chair of English Literature and Culture at Leibniz University in Hannover, Germany. His research interests centre on the link between literature, culture and the media and theories of identity, power, gender and sexuality. His publications include
Modernism in Poetry (1995),
W.H. Auden: Towards a Postmodern Poetics (1999), and
Stereotypes in Contemporary Anglo-German Relations (edited, 2000).
ANTONY ROWLAND is Professor of English at the University of Salford, UK. His research interests include memory studies, Holocaust studies, contemporary poetry and masculinity. His publications include Signs of Masculinity (edited, 1999), Choosing Tough Words: The Poetry of Carol Ann Duffy (edited, 2003) and Holocaust Poetry (2005). He has also published a collection of poetry entitled The Land of Green Ginger (2008).
Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors
Foreword--J.Bristow
Introduction--R.Emig and A.Rowland
Touching Byron: Masculinity and the Celebrity Body in the Romantic Period--D.Saglia
Turning into Subjects: The Male Dancer in Romantic Ballet--G.Siegmund
Industrial Heroes: Elizabeth Gaskell and Charlotte Bronts Constructions of the Masculine--J.L.Malay
Low on Assurance: The Troubled Masculinity of Victorian Comedy--R.Emig
Performing Imperial Masculinities: The Discourse and Practice of Cricket--A.Bateman
A Stoat Came to Tea: Camp Poetics and Masculinity--A.Rowland
Lethal Enclosure: Masculinity under Fire in James Joness The Thin Red Line--D.Boulting
In their Fathers Footsteps: Performing Masculinity and Fatherhood in the Work of Les Murray and Michael Ondaatje--K.Burkitt
Seeding Asian Masculinities in the U.S. Landscape: Representations of Mens Lives in Asian American Literature--W.Ho
From Glam Rock to Cock Rock: Revis(it)ing Rock Masculinities in Recent Feature Films; L.Krmer
Histories of Violence Fairytales of Identity and Masculinity in Martin McDonaghs The Lieutenant of Inishmore and The Pillowman--W.Funk
Ghosts of Sparta: Performing the God of Wars Virtual Masculinity--S.Schmalfu
Notes
Index