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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Ravi, Vidya, 1932- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2019]
Series:	Ecocritical theory and practice.
Subjects:	1900-2099 American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism. American fiction > 21st century > History and criticism. Human ecology in literature. Masculinity in literature. Men in literature. Place (Philosophy) in literature. Sex role in literature. American fiction. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Table of Contents:

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.