A Man's Game: Masculinity and the Anti-Aesthetics of American Literary Naturalism

by John Dudley

Book Overview

Demonstrates how concepts of masculinity shaped the aesthetic foundations of literary naturalism

A Man's Game explores the development of American literary naturalism as it relates to definitions of manhood in many of the movement's key texts and the aesthetic goals of writers such as Stephen Crane, Jack London, Frank Norris, Edith Wharton, Charles Chestnutt, and James Weldon Johnson. John Dudley argues that in the climate...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081735879X
• ISBN13: 9780817358792
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 232 Pages