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Bachelors, manhood, and the novel, 1850-1925 /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Bachelors, manhood, and the novel, 1850-1925 // Katherine V. Snyder.
remainder title:	Bachelors, Manhood, & the Novel, 1850–1925
Author:	Snyder, Katherine V.,
Description:	1 online resource (x, 285 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	American fiction - Male authors -
Subject:	English-speaking countries - Intellectual life. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511485312
ISBN:	9780511485312 (ebook)

Bachelors, manhood, and the novel, 1850-1925 /
Snyder, Katherine V.,

Bachelors, manhood, and the novel, 1850-1925 /Bachelors, Manhood, & the Novel, 1850–1925Katherine V. Snyder. - 1 online resource (x, 285 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Trouble in paradise: bachelors and bourgeois domesticity --

Katherine Snyder's study explores the significance of the bachelor narrator, a prevalent but little-recognised 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. The very marginality of the figure, Snyder argues, effects a critique of gendered norms of manhood, while the symbolic function of marriage as a means of plot resolution is also made more complex by the presence of the single man. Bachelor figures made, moreover, an ideal narrative device for male authors who themselves occupied vexed cultural positions. 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 male modernism.

ISBN: 9780511485312 (ebook)Subjects--Personal Names:

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Conrad, Joseph,
1857-1924--Adaptations.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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American fiction
--Male authorsSubjects--Geographical Terms:

879052
English-speaking countries
--Intellectual life.

LC Class. No.: PS374.B34 / S69 1999

Dewey Class. No.: 813/.409352041

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