Bachelors, Manhood, and the Novel, 1850-1925 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521650465)

Katherine Snyder's study explores the significance of the bachelor narrator, a prevalent but little recognized figure in premodernist and modernist fiction by male authors, including Hawthorne, James, Conrad, Ford, and Fitzgerald. Snyder demonstrates that bachelors functioned in cultural and literary discourse as threshold figures who, by crossing the shifting, permeable boundaries of bourgeois domesticity, highlighted the limits of conventional masculinity. By attending to the gendered identities and relations at issue in these narratives, Snyder's study discloses the aesthetic and political underpinnings of the traditional canon of English and American modernism.

Author: Katherine V. Snyder
ISBN-10: 0521650461
ISBN-13: 9780521650465
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/02/1999
Pages: 296
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.90d