Men alone : : masculinity, individualism, and hard-boiled fiction / / Jopi Nyman.

• Superior document: Costerus ; Volume 111
• VerfasserIn: Nyman, Jopi, 1966-
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam ;, Atlanta, Georgia : : Rodopi,, [1997]; ©1997
• Year of Publication: 1997
• Language: English
• Series: Costerus ; Volume 111.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (390 pages)

This study examines masculinity and individualism in four American novels of the 1920s and 1930s usually regarded as belonging to the genre of hard-boiled fiction. The novels under study are Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett, The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain, They Shoot Horses, Don'...

Table of Contents

• Preface
• 1 INTRODUCTION
• 1.1 Aims
• 1.2 Texts
• 2 GENRE AND GENDER
• 2.1 The Emergence of Hard-Boiled Fiction
• 2.2 Masculinity Embodied
• 2.3 Gender and Social Change
• 2.4 Gender and Adventure
• 3 CONSTRUCTING HARD-BOILED MASCULINITY
• 3.1 Body
• 3.2 Codes of Manhood
• 3.3 Language and Control
• 4 THE FICTION OF INDIVIDUALISM
• 4.1 Autonomy and Individualism
• 4.2 The Autonomous Male
• 4.3 The Individual Self
• 4.4 The Destruction of Individualism
• 5 THE LOSS OF IDEALISM
• 5.1 Dreams Deferred in The Postman Always Rings Twice
• 5.2 The End of Humanity in They Shoot Horses, Don't They ? 5.3 A Tragedy of Idealism in To Have and Have Not
• 5.4 Alienation in Red Harvest
• 6 MEN, DREAMS, AND ORDER
• 6.1 Hard-Boiled Sentimentalists
• 6.2 Masculine Omnipotence
• 6.3 A World of Order
• 6.4 Gendered Saviours
• 7 CONCLUSION
• BIBLIOGRAPHY.