Masculinity and place in American literature since 1950 /

"This volume explores the relationship in postwar American literature between masculinity and place, tracing the development of the 'domesticated man' of midcentury and the continual subversion of this established vision of masculinity by alternate systems of symbols and ecological co...

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Main Author: Ravi, Vidya, 1932- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2019]
Series:Ecocritical theory and practice.
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505 0 |a Introduction: nature men of twentieth-century America -- The ruined paradise: John Cheever's gendered nostalgia -- The man of the house: John Updike and the homestead -- Thresholds of thought: disembodied sexuality in "Carver country" -- The fall of frontier dreams: failed fathers and absent sons in Richard Ford's fiction -- Conclusion. 
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