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Book SynopsisThis collection challenges our ideas about male emotion. Through readings of works by Thoreau, Lowell and W.E.B. Du Bois, and of 20th century authors such as Hemingway and Kerouac, this book questions the persistence of the emotionally alienated male in narratives of white middle-class masculinity.
Trade ReviewThis book questions the persistence of the emotionally alienated male in narratives of white, middle-class masculinity and addresses the political and social implications of male emotional expression. Brandeis Review This collection of eleven scholarly essays successfully combines a cultural history of male emotion with detailed readings of male-authored texts... Shamir and Travis's collection discovers male emotionality to be far more intricate than many facile equations of masculine subjectivity... are inclined to allow for. -- Berthold Schoene Modernism/Modernity
Table of ContentsIntroduction What Feels an American? Evident Selves and Alienable Emotions in the New Man's World, by Evan Carton Loving with a Vengeance: Wieland, Familicide and the Crisis of Masculinity in the Early Nation, by Elizabeth Barnes "The Manliest Relations to Men": Thoreau on Privacy, Intimacy, and Writing, by Milette Shamir Manly Tears: Men's Elegies for Children in Nineteenth-Century America, by Eric Haralson How to be a (Sentimental) Race Man: Mourning and Passing in W.E.B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk, by Ryan Schneider The Law of the Heart: Emotional Injury and its Fictions, by Jennifer Travis "The Sort of Thing You Should Not Admit": Hemingway's Aesthetics of Emotional Restraint, by Thomas Strychacz Road Work: Rereading Kerouac's Midcentury Melodrama of Beset Sonhood, by Stephen Davenport Men's Tears and the Roles of Melodrama, by Tom Lutz Men's Liberation, Men's Wounds: Emotion, Sexuality, and the Reconstruction of Masculinity in the 1970s, by Sally Robinson The Politics of Feeling: Men, Masculinity, and Mourning on the Capital Mall, by Judith Newton
