Dangerous Masculinities: Conrad, Hemingway, and Lawrence

by Thomas Strychacz

In Dangerous Masculinities, Thomas Strychacz has as his goal nothing less than to turn scholarship on gender and modernism on its head. He focuses on the way some early twentieth-century writers portray masculinity as theatrical performance, and examines why scholars have generally overlooked that fact. Strychacz argues that writers such as Conrad, Hemingway, and Lawrence--often viewed as misogynist--actually represented masculinity in their works...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813031613
• ISBN13: 9780813031613
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.2"