Shakespeare and Masculinity in Southern Fiction

J. Keener

ISBN 10: 0230603203 / ISBN 13: 9780230603202

Published by Palgrave Macmillan US, Palgrave Macmillan US Apr 2008, 2008

About this Item

Neuware -The book 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.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 220 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Shakespeare and Masculinity in Southern Fiction
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US, Palgrave Macmillan US Apr 2008
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0230603203
• ISBN 13: 9780230603202
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 216W x 140H x 13D millimeters 216 millimeters width by 140 millimeters height by 13 millimeters depth
• Weight: 283 grams

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Synopsis

The book 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.

About the Author

Joseph B. Keener is Assistant Professor of English at Dalton State College.