Detoxing Masculinity in Anglophone Literature and Culture In Search of Good Men
“A most timely contribution to Masculinity Studies. While most studies focus on notions of toxic masculinity, this collection adopts a refreshing approach to the subject by questioning hegemonic masculinity and by offering distinct possibilities of being a man in contemporary society. A must-read fo...
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| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan
2023, 2023
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2023 |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: Beyond Toxic Patriarchal Masculinity
- Part I. Literature
- 2. The Visible-Invisible ‘Good Man’ in Jane Austen’s The Watsons
- 3. Ishmael’s Detoxing Process: Escaping Domestic Homogeneity in Moby-Dick
- 4. From Brutal to Spiritual Men in T.S. Eliot’s Poetry and Drama: Sweeney and Beyond
- 5. Hybrid Masculinities in D.H. Lawrence’s “The Blind Man” and Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral”
- Part II. Transnational Fictions
- 6. Of Tender Hearts and Good Men: Reading Australian Masculinity in Tim Winton’s Fiction
- 7. “A Good Man is Hard to Find”: The Making of Michael ‘Digger’ Digson
- 8. Black Masculinities in the Age of #BLM: Zadie Smith’s On Beauty
- Part III. Fantasy
- 9. “Some Wizards Just Like to Boast that Theirs Are Bigger and Better”: Harry Potter and the Rejection of Patriarchal Power
- 10. A Lover Boy with Battle Scars: Romance, War Fiction, and the Construction of Peeta Mellark as a Good Man in The Hunger Games Trilogy
- 11. Masculinity and Heroism in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld: The Case of Good Captain Carrot
- Part IV. Science Fiction
- 12. Skywalker: Bad Fathers and Good Sons
- 13. Changing the Script of “Human Is”: Re-Visioning the Good (Hu)Man in Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams
- 14. Between Therapy and Revolution: Mr. Robot’s Ambivalence towards Hacker Masculinity
- Part V. Close to Life
- 15. A Few Good Old Men: Revising Ageing Masculinities in Last Tango in Halifax
- 16. Let the Little Children Come to Me: Fred Rogers, the Good Man as TV Educator
- 17. The Part of the Iceberg That Doesn’t Show: Romance, Good Husbands, and Mr. Julia Child