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Palgrave Men Beyond Desire Manhood Sex And Violation In American Literature 2005 Edition by David Greven
This book explores the construction of male sexuality in nineteenth-century American literature and comes up with some startling findings. Far from desiring heterosexual sex and wishing to bond with other men through fraternity the male protagonists of classic American literature mainly want to be left alone. Greven makes the claim that American men eschewing both marriage and male friendship strive to remain emotionally and sexually inviolate. Examining the work of traditional authors - Hawthorne Poe Melville Cooper Irving Stowe - Greven discovers highly untraditional and transgressive representations of desire and sexuality. Objects of desire from both women and other men the inviolate males discussed in this study overturn established gendered and sexual categories just as this study overturns archetypal assumptions about American manhood and American literature. Table of contents : Republican Machines Troubling Our Heads About Ichabod Fear of Fanshawe Disturbing the Sleep of Bachelors Madman! Poe Bound in Black Morocco Afterlife... The Angel Must Hang Coda