A man's game masculinity and the anti-aesthetics of American literary naturalism / [electronic resource] :
John Dudley.
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2004.
- viii, 222 p.
- Studies in American literary realism and naturalism .
- Studies in American literary realism and naturalism. .
Originally presented as author's thesis (doctoral)--Tulane University, 2001.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-215) and index.
Inside and outside the ring : the establishment of a masculinist aesthetic sensibility -- "Subtle brotherhood" in Stephen Crane's tales of adventure : alienation, anxiety, and the rites of manhood -- "Beauty unmans me" : diminished manhood and the leisure class in Norris and Wharton -- "A man only in form" : the roots of naturalism in African American literature.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century Naturalism in literature. American fiction--Male authors--History and criticism. American fiction--African American authors--History and criticism. African American men--Intellectual life. African American men in literature. Masculinity in literature. Aesthetics, American. Men in literature.