Performing masculinity / edited by Rainer Emig, Antony Rowland.

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Other Authors: Emig, Rainer, 1964-, Rowland, Antony.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
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Table of 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.