English Fiction & Prose Literature - General & Miscellaneous - Literary Criticism, Literary Criticism - General & Miscellaneous, English Fiction & Prose Literature - 20th Century - Literary Criticism, Masculinity
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Overview
Ben Knights argues that engagement with fictional texts can generate insight into how gender norms are both developed and contested. In particular, he draws on contemporary work in both the social sciences and humanities to examine the performance of masculinity in contrasting fictions ranging from classic texts by D. H. Lawrence and Joseph Conrad to novels by John Fowles, Graham Swift, James Kelman, David Leavitt and Ian McEwan. The book will be of value to all those engaged in the study of gender and especially masculinity in literature and culture.Editorials
Booknews
To support his thesis that fictional texts can generate insights into how gender norms are developed and contested, Knights (English and cultural studies, U. of Teesdale, UK) examines conceptions of "masculinity as fiction" and "the portrait of the artist as a man" in classic texts by "fictional forefathers" D.H. Lawrence and Conrad, novels by "male impersonators" Christina Stead and Nadine Gortimer, and by male English novelists who made their names in the 1980s (G. Swift, J. Kelman, D. Leavitt, and I. McEwan). Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
August 15, 1999
Publisher
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan; 1999.
Pages
266
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780312222451