Katherine V. Snyder

Bachelors, Manhood, and the Novel, 1850-1925

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A study of the significance of bachelors in English and American modernist and pre-modernist fiction.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 636g
• ISBN-13: 9780521650465
• ISBN-10: 0521650461
• Artikelnr.: 26646449

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; 1. Trouble in paradise: bachelors and bourgeois domesticity:
2. Sickness and the single man: sympathy, vicariousness, and the bachelor
invalid in James and Brontë; 3. 'An artist and a bachelor': Henry James,
discipleship, and mastering the life of art; 4. 'A way of looking on': male
feminism and male fetishism in Conrad's Under Western Eyes; 5. 'The
necessary melancholy of bachelors': melancholy, manhood and modernist
narrative in Conrad, Ford and Fitzgerald; Bibliography.