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Act Like A Man : Challenging Masculinities in American Drama / by Vorlicky, Robert, 1950-

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The Woman in the Window : Commerce, Consensual Fantasy, and the Quest for Masculine Virtue in the Russian Novel / by Valentino, Russell Scott, 1962-

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The Fragility of Manhood : Hawthorne, Freud, and the Politics of Gender / by Greven, David

Table of Contents: “…The paradox of desire -- Paradise lost : Hawthorne's traumatic narcissism -- As his mother loved him : Hawthorne's "The gentle boy" and Freud's theory of male homosexuality -- Revising the Oedipal Hawthorne : criticism and the forms of narcissism -- Struck by the mask : narcissism, shame, masculinity, and the dread of the visual -- In a pig's eye : masculinity, mastery, and the returned gaze of 'The Blithedale romance' -- The gaze in the garden : femininity, fetishism, and tradition in "Rappaccini's daughter" -- Visual identity : Hawthorne, Melville, and classical male beauty -- A certain dark beauty : narcissism, form, and race in Hawthorne's late work -- The haunted verge : aesthetics, desire, history.…”
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Neodomestic American Fiction / by Jacobson, Kristin J., 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Recycling domesticities : contemporary American fiction's domestic geographies -- Remapping domestic fiction : neodomestic geographies -- Recycling feminine domesticity : rewriting conventional domestic fiction -- Remodeling home : redesigning conventional domestic space -- Mapping gendered genres : domestic masculinity, suburban fiction, and the antidomestic -- Performing domesticity : anxious masculinity and queer homes -- Conclusions : the territory ahead.…”
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