The Male Body in Representation: Returning to Matter

Author:   Carmen Dexl ,  Silvia Gerlsbeck
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2022
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Pages:   325
Publication Date:   22 March 2022
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Author:   Carmen Dexl ,  Silvia Gerlsbeck
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2022
Weight:   0.575kg
ISBN:  

9783030886035


ISBN 10:   3030886034
Pages:   325
Publication Date:   22 March 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. Returning to Matter: Critical Perspectives on Representations of the Male Body.- 2. Brother to Brother: A Rereading of Black Masculinities in Embodied Performance.- 3. ‘You’re a Real Man After All’: Fashioning the Male Physique in Twentieth-Century Boxing and Wrestling Magazines.- 4. Basil Dearden’s Violent Playground (1958): Masculinity, Class, and Sentimental Politics.- 5. Refashioning the Male Body: Contemporary Media Representations of the Spornosexual and the Waif.- 6. English Dandies and French Lions: Policing the Male Body in Popular Print and Visual Culture between 1815 and 1848.- 7. Stiliagi Masculinity and the Re-Fashioning of the Male Body in the Soviet Union (1948–1958).- 8. Claiming the Flâneur’s Body: Cross-Dressing Women, Autobiographical Self-Fashioning, and the Pleasures of Passing and Not Passing as a Man on the Street.- 9. Jake and Ellen in Transition: On Clarissa Sligh’s Mutable Bodies.- 10. “A Most Unlikely Hero”: Disability, Masculinity, and Sexuality in Harlequin Superromance Novels.- 11. Of Cyborgs, Aliens, and Tricksters: Posthumanist Perspectives on the Male Body in Caribbean Speculative Literature.- 12. Fashionable Men in Skin-Tight Pants: Shifts in Body Images and Concepts of Masculinity in the History of Men’s Legwear.- 13. “Isn’t it pretty to think so?” – Disability and the Queering of Masculinity in Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises and D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover.- 14. Rereading the Male Body: The Cultural Power of Representation.

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Carmen Dexl is an assistant professor in American Studies at the University of Regensburg, Germany, where she is currently working on her second book project in the fields of Performance Studies, Age Studies, and Body Studies. Silvia Gerlsbeck is a research associate in English Literature and Culture at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. Her dissertation examines negotiations of authorship and masculinity in Caribbean British literature.

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