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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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019] ©1990 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- 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