Writing Masculinities : Male Narratives in Twentieth-century Fiction

by Knights, Ben

• ISBN13: 9780333733561
• ISBN10: 0333733568
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-06-01
• Publisher: Trans-Atlantic Pubns

Author Biography

Ben Knights is Professor of English and Cultural Studies at the University of Teesside. UK

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Masculinity as Fiction	p. 10
Telling and Being	p. 11
The Abuses of Enchantment	p. 20
Masculinity and 'English'	p. 34
The Portrait of the Artist as a Man	p. 49
The Ebony Tower	p. 51
The Woman in the Reeds	p. 57
Fathers and Gods	p. 64
Fictional Forefathers: Conrad and Lawrence	p. 73
Beckoning Shadows Dire	p. 79
Women in Love	p. 88
Discourse and Knowledge	p. 96
Men in Love	p. 99
Art and its Interpreters	p. 103
Male Narratives	p. 107
The Great Game	p. 109
Life Stories	p. 112
Notes from Underground	p. 121
Mortifying the Flesh	p. 125
Male Impersonators	p. 134
The Man who Loved Children	p. 140
The Politics of the Family	p. 147
The Conservationist	p. 153
A Local Habitation	p. 159
Flight between Worlds	p. 163
Men in Time	p. 167
The Fatherland of Graham Swift	p. 169
'The Wean and That': Paternity and Domesticity in The Busconductor Hines	p. 180
In Search of Lost Languages	p. 194
The Child in Time	p. 206
Afterword	p. 222
Notes	p. 225
Bibliography	p. 241
Index	p. 253
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