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Bauman, Allen H.

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The male malaise: Paralysis and masculinity in literature, 1880--1914.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The male malaise: Paralysis and masculinity in literature, 1880--1914./
Author:	Bauman, Allen H.
Description:	301 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-02, Section: A, page: 0508.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-02A.
Subject:	Literature, Modern. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3123899
ISBN:	0496712095

The male malaise: Paralysis and masculinity in literature, 1880--1914.
Bauman, Allen H.

The male malaise: Paralysis and masculinity in literature, 1880--1914. - 301 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-02, Section: A, page: 0508.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Tulsa, 2004.

Masculine paralysis persisted in late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century England despite the cultural and ideological insistence on progress and on active, healthy, and even heroic masculinities. In fact, it was often experienced precisely because of the discursive demands of its opposite, progress. At once physical and discursive, paralysis produces a countertext to the masculinities defined by normalizing gender binaries and by an active, controlling will.

ISBN: 0496712095Subjects--Topical Terms:

624011
Literature, Modern.

The male malaise: Paralysis and masculinity in literature, 1880--1914.
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520 $a Masculine paralysis persisted in late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century England despite the cultural and ideological insistence on progress and on active, healthy, and even heroic masculinities. In fact, it was often experienced precisely because of the discursive demands of its opposite, progress. At once physical and discursive, paralysis produces a countertext to the masculinities defined by normalizing gender binaries and by an active, controlling will.
520 $a This project demonstrates how the negotiation of male gender(s) evoked in the "crisis of masculinity" engenders paralysis. The male characters studied here expose the confining and marginalizing effects of hegemonic masculinity or, more specifically, of Victorian manliness on both those afforded masculine privilege and those denied it. Reflecting the cultural anxieties of 1880--1914 (including concerns about the Empire), the characters and texts under consideration illustrate the costs of progress. The use of popular and medical discourses exemplifies how cultural concerns were debated among turn-of-the-century discourses in the articulation of paralysis. This study reveals the extension of female hysteria to include the male paralysis of fatigued, pathologized, and diseased men.
520 $a Chapter One theorizes how Victorian and Edwardian ideas of progress interact with and are evoked by hegemonic masculinity and how paralysis operates both within the construction of masculinity (in its crisis) and by means of that construction. In Chapter Two, the men of Rudyard Kipling's The Light That Failed and Olive Schreiner's The Story of an African Farm are paralyzed by the discourses of imperialism, the New Woman, and sexuality. The discourses and effects of medicine and mesmerism are shown to evoke a loss of will in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Thou Art the Man and Richard Marsh's The Beetle in Chapter Three. In Chapter Four, the paralyzing conditions of the male malaise are shown to be products of socio-economic institutions in Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure and James Joyce's Stephen Hero. The sexology of desire reveals desire as paralyzed and paralyzing in the discussion of D. H. Lawrence's The Trespasser and E. M. Forster's Maurice in Chapter Five. The Conclusion suggests that shock existed alongside paralysis and nervous weakness decades before the shell-shock of World War One.
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