Henry James and the suspense of masculinity / Leland S. Person.
"Using insights from feminist studies, men's studies, and gay and queer studies, Leland S. Person examines Henry James's subversion of male identity and the challenges he poses to conventional constructs of heterosexual masculinity. Sexual and gender categories proliferated in the nin...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2003]
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| Summary: | "Using insights from feminist studies, men's studies, and gay and queer studies, Leland S. Person examines Henry James's subversion of male identity and the challenges he poses to conventional constructs of heterosexual masculinity. Sexual and gender categories proliferated in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and Person argues that James exploited the taxonomic confusion of the times to experiment with alternative sexual and gender identities. In contrast to scholars who have tried to give a single label to James's sexuality, Person argues that establishing James's gender and sexual identity is less important than examining the novelist's shaping of male characters and his richly metaphorical language as an experiment in gender and sexual theorizing."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Physical Description: | 206 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-202) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0812237250 9780812237252 |