Manhood and the American Renaissance / / David Leverenz.
In the view of David Leverenz, such nineteenth-century American male writers as Emerson, Hawthorne, Melville, Thoreau, and Whitman were influenced more profoundly by the popular model of the entrepreneurial "man of force" than they were by their literary precursors and contemporaries. Draw...
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Leverenz, David, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Manhood and the American Renaissance / David Leverenz. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019] ©1990 1 online resource (384 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 "I" and "You" in the American Renaissance -- 2 The Politics of Emerson's Man-Making Words -- 3 Three Ideologies of Manhood, Four Narratives of Humiliation -- 4 Frederick Douglass's Self-Refashioning -- 5 Two Genteel Women Look at Men: Sarah Hale and Caroline Kirkland -- 6 Impassioned Women: The Wide, Wide World and Uncle Tom's Cabin -- 7 Hard, Isolate, Ruthless, and Patrician: Dana and Parkman -- 8 Devious Men: Hawthorne -- 9 Mrs. Hawthorne's Headache: Reading The Scarlet Letter -- 10 Ahab's Queenly Personality: A Man Is Being Beaten -- Notes -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In the view of David Leverenz, such nineteenth-century American male writers as Emerson, Hawthorne, Melville, Thoreau, and Whitman were influenced more profoundly by the popular model of the entrepreneurial "man of force" than they were by their literary precursors and contemporaries. Drawing on the insights of feminist theory, gender studies, psychoanalytical criticism, and social history, Manhood and the American Renaissance demonstrates that gender pressures and class conflicts played as critical a role in literary creation for the male writers of nineteenth-century America as they did for the women writers.Leverenz interprets male American authors in terms of three major ideologies of manhood linked to the social classes in the Northeast-patrician, artisan, and entrepreneurial. He asserts that the older ideologies of patrician gentility and of artisan independence were being challenged from 1820 to 1860 by the new middle-class ideology of competitive individualism. The male writers of the American Renaissance, patrician almost without exception in their backgrounds and self-expectations, were fascinated yet horrified by the aggressive materialism and the rivalry for dominance they witnessed in the undeferential "new men." In close readings of the works both of well-known male literary figures and of then popular authors such as Richard Henry Dana, Jr., and Francis Parkman, Leverenz discovers a repressed center of manhood beset by fears of humiliation and masochistic fantasies. He discerns different patterns in the works of Whitman, with his artisan's background, and Frederick Douglass, who rose from artisan freedom to entrepreneurial power. Emphasizing the interplay of class and gender, Leverenz also considers how women viewed manhood. He concludes that male writers portrayed manhood as a rivalry for dominance, but contemporary female writers saw it as patriarchy. Two chapters contrast the work of the genteel writers Sarah Hale and Caroline Kirkland with the evangelical works of Susan Warner and Harriet Beecher Stowe.A bold and imaginative work, Manhood and the American Renaissance will enlighten and inspire controversy among all students of American literature, nineteenth-century American history, and the relation of gender and literature. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024) Literary Studies. LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000 9783110536171 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501744143 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501744143 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501744143/original |
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Leverenz, David, Leverenz, David, Manhood and the American Renaissance / Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 "I" and "You" in the American Renaissance -- 2 The Politics of Emerson's Man-Making Words -- 3 Three Ideologies of Manhood, Four Narratives of Humiliation -- 4 Frederick Douglass's Self-Refashioning -- 5 Two Genteel Women Look at Men: Sarah Hale and Caroline Kirkland -- 6 Impassioned Women: The Wide, Wide World and Uncle Tom's Cabin -- 7 Hard, Isolate, Ruthless, and Patrician: Dana and Parkman -- 8 Devious Men: Hawthorne -- 9 Mrs. Hawthorne's Headache: Reading The Scarlet Letter -- 10 Ahab's Queenly Personality: A Man Is Being Beaten -- Notes -- Index |
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