Henry James and the Suspense of Masculinity

by Leland S. Person

Using insights from feminist studies, men's studies, and gay and queer studies, Leland 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812237250
• ISBN13: 9780812237252
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.1" x 9.1"