Eco-Man: New Perspectives on Masculinity and Nature

by Mark Allister

Book Overview

The paradoxical role nature plays in American myth and history grows in part from the male's reverent fascination with the wilderness and his equally strong impulse to dominate it. Many canonical literary works--think of Thoreau, Melville, Hemingway, Faulkner--look to the wild as the site for establishing a man's selfhood. But nature is just as often subjected to his most violent displays of mastery.

This tension lies at the heart of Eco-Man,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813923050
• ISBN13: 9780813923055
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.4"