From the Delivered to the Dispatched |
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| Author:
| Stilley, Harriet |
| Series title: | Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-138-36697-8 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2018 |
| Publisher: | Routledge
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $140.00 |
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From the Delivered to the Dispatched: Masculinity in Modern American Fiction (1969-1977)focuses on masculinity in late twentieth-century American fiction. This rigorous study shows the ways post-war American authors engage with the tension between capitalist consumer culture and traditional national conceptions of American manhood. Drawing on examples from the works of prolific contemporary American writers, Cormac McCarthy, Toni Morrison and Michael Herr, Stilley...
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From the Delivered to the Dispatched: Masculinity in Modern American Fiction (1969-1977)focuses on masculinity in late twentieth-century American fiction. This rigorous study shows the ways post-war American authors engage with the tension between capitalist consumer culture and traditional national conceptions of American manhood. Drawing on examples from the works of prolific contemporary American writers, Cormac McCarthy, Toni Morrison and Michael Herr, Stilley investigates hypermasculine male violence, the classical and grotesque body, as well as specific regional themes such as the Western frontier, the American Adam, the Southern Gothic and the Suburban Gothic.