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953120
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b707490
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Greven, David
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| Title & Author
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Men beyond desire : : manhood, sex, and violation in American literature /\ David Greven.
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1st ed.
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New York :: Palgrave Macmillan,, 2005.
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1 online resource (xii, 294 pages)
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| ISBN
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1281367893
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: 1403977119
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: 9781281367891
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: 9781403969118
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: 9781403977113
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1403969116
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1403977119
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-286) and index.
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| Contents
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Republican Machines -- Troubling Our Heads about Ichabod -- Fear of Fanshawe -- Disturbing the Sleep of Bachelors -- Madman! -- Poe -- Bound in Black Morocco -- Afterlife ... -- The Angel Must Hang -- Coda.
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| Abstract
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This book explores the construction of male sexuality in nineteenth century American literature and comes up with some startling findings. Far from desiring heterosexual sex and wishing to bond with other men through fraternity, the male protagonists of classic American literature mainly want to be left alone. Greven makes the claim that American men, eschewing both marriage and male friendship, strive to remain emotionally and sexually inviolate. Examining the work of traditional authors-Hawthorne, Poe, Melville, Cooper, Irving, Stowe-Greven discovers highly untraditional and transgressive representations of desire and sexuality. Objects of desire from both women and other men, the inviolate males discussed in this study overturn established gendered and sexual categories, just as this study overturns archetypal assumptions about American manhood and American literature.
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American literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
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Chastity in literature.
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Desire in literature.
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Masculinity in literature.
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Men in literature.
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Self-control in literature.
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Sex in literature.
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Sex role in literature.
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Social isolation in literature.
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Violence in literature.
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American literature.
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Chastity in literature.
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Desire in literature.
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Gay/Lesbian Interest.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- American-- General.
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Literature.
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Masculinity in literature.
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Men in literature.
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Self-control in literature.
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Sex in literature.
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Sex role in literature.
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Social isolation in literature.
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Violence in literature.
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| Dewey Classification
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810.9/353
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PS217.M37G74 2005eb
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