Posting the male : : masculinities in post-war and contemporary British literature / / edited by Daniel Lea and Berthold Schoene.

The essays collected in Posting the Male examine representations of masculinity in post-war and contemporary British literature, focussing on the works of writers as diverse as John Osborne, Joe Orton, James Kelman, Ian Rankin, Carol Ann Duffy, Alan Hollinghurst, Ian McEwan, Graham Swift and Jackie...

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Superior document:Genus--gender in modern culture ; 3
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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam ;, New York, New York : : Editions Rodopi B.V.,, [2003]
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Year of Publication:2003
Language:English
Series:Genus--gender in modern culture ; 3.
Physical Description:1 online resource (171 pages)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Daniel LEA and Berthold SCHOENE: Masculinity in Transition: An Introduction
  • Susan BROOK: Engendering Rebellion: The Angry Young Man, Class and Masculinity
  • Richard HORNSEY: Of Public Libraries and Paperbacks: "Deviant" Masculinity and the Spatial Practices of Reading in Post-War London
  • Gill PLAIN: Hard Nuts to Crack: Devolving Masculinities in Contemporary Scottish Fiction
  • Neil McMILLAN: Heroes and Zeroes: Monologism and Masculinism in Scottish Men's Writing of the 1970s and Beyond
  • Emma PARKER: No Man's Land: Masculinity and Englishness in Graham Swift's Last Orders
  • Rhiannon DAVIES: Enduring McEwan
  • Antony ROWLAND: Patriarchy, Male Power and the Psychopath in the Poetry of Carol Ann Duffy
  • Irene ROSE: Heralding New Possibilities: Female Masculinity in Jackie Kay's Trumpet
  • Emma LIGGINS: Alan Hollinghurst and Metropolitan Gay Identities
  • Notes on Contributors.