Shakespeare and Masculinity in Southern Fiction: Faulkner, SIMMs, Page, and Dixon

by Joseph B. Keener and Peter J. Ling

Shakespeare and Masculinity in Southern Fiction advances the idea that American, Southern, white, planter class authors have appropriated models and modes of masculinity from William Shakespeare. Keener traces the history of this appropriation and its attendant masculinities from authors as early as William Gilmore Simms, through Thomas Nelson Page and Thomas Dixon, to William Faulkner. This project distinctively ignores artificial divisions of literary...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230603203
• ISBN13: 9780230603202
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 203 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.7"