Updike and the Patriarchal Dilemma: Masculinity in the Rabbit Novels

by Mary O'Connell

Mary O'Connell examines the role of socially constructed masculinity in John Updike's Rabbit tetralogy--Rabbit Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit Is Rich, and Rabbit at Rest--which comprises the longest and most comprehensive representation of masculinity in American literature and places Updike firmly with the precursors of the contemporary movement among men to reevaluate their cultural inheritance.

A disturbing element exists, O'Connell...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809319497
• ISBN13: 9780809319497
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.2"