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Performing Masculinity R. Emig

Performing Masculinity By R. Emig

Performing Masculinity by R. Emig


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This interdisciplinary study analyzes 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.

Performing Masculinity Summary

Performing Masculinity by R. Emig

This interdisciplinary study analyzes 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.

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'...remarkable, and startling...' - CHOICE

About R. Emig

ANTHONY BATEMAN is Honorary Visiting Research Fellow at the International Centre for Sports History and Culture, De Montfort University, UK DAVID BOULTING is an independent scholar KATHARINE BURKITT teaches at the University of Liege, Belgium WOLFGANG FUNK is a Research Assistant at Leibniz Universitat Hannover, Germany WENDY HO is Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Davis, USA LUCIA KRAEMER is Lecturer in British Literature and Culture at Leibniz Universitat Hannover, Germany JESSICA MALAY is Senior Lecturer at the University of Huddersfield, UK DIEGO SAGLIA is Associate Professor of English Literature and Culture at the University of Parma, Italy SVEN SCHMALFUss is Lecturer in Gender Studies at Regensburg University, Germany GERALD SIEGMUND is Professor of Dance Studies at the University of Giessen, Germany

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 Bronte'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.Kramer 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.Schmalfuss Notes Index

Additional information

NPB9780230577985
9780230577985
0230577989
Performing Masculinity by R. Emig
New
Hardback
Palgrave Macmillan
2010-05-21
240
N/A
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