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Performing Masculinity

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  • © 2010

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  1. Rainer Emig

    1. Leibniz University in Hanover, Germany

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  2. Antony Rowland

    1. University of Salford in Greater Manchester, UK

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Rainer Emig, Antony Rowland
    Pages 1-12

  3. Touching Byron: Masculinity and the Celebrity Body in the Romantic Period

    • Diego Saglia
    Pages 13-27

  4. Turning into Subjects: The Male Dancer in Romantic Ballet

    • Gerald Siegmund
    Pages 28-40

  5. Industrial Heroes: Elizabeth Gaskell and Charlotte Brontë’s Constructions of the Masculine

    • Jessica L. Malay
    Pages 41-59

  6. Low on Assurance: The Troubled Masculinity of Victorian Comedy

    • Rainer Emig
    Pages 60-77

  7. Performing Imperial Masculinities: The Discourse and Practice of Cricket

    • Anthony Bateman
    Pages 78-94

  8. ‘A Stoat Came to Tea’: Camp Poetics and Masculinity

    • Antony Rowland
    Pages 95-109

  9. Lethal Enclosure: Masculinity under Fire in James Jones’s The Thin Red Line

    • David Boulting
    Pages 110-129

  10. In their Fathers’ Footsteps: Performing Masculinity and Fatherhood in the Work of Les Murray and Michael Ondaatje

    • Katharine Burkitt
    Pages 130-148

  11. Seeding Asian Masculinities in the US Landscape: Representations of Men’s Lives in Asian American Literature

    • Wendy Ho
    Pages 149-165

  12. From Glam Rock to Cock Rock: Revis(it)ing Rock Masculinities in Recent Feature Films

    • Lucia Krämer
    Pages 166-184

  13. Histories of Violence — Fairytales of Identity and Masculinity in Martin McDonagh’s The Lieutenant of Inishmore and The Pillowman

    • Wolfgang Funk
    Pages 185-209

  14. ‘Ghosts of Sparta’: Performing the God of War’s Virtual Masculinity

    • Sven Schmalfuß
    Pages 210-233

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 234-240
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This interdisciplinary study analyzes the ways in which signs of masculinity have been performed across a wide variety of contexts and genres - including literature, classical ballet, sports, rock music, films and computer games - from the early nineteenth century to the present day.

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Editors and Affiliations

  • Leibniz University in Hanover, Germany

    Rainer Emig

  • University of Salford in Greater Manchester, UK

    Antony Rowland

About the editors

ANTHONY BATEMAN is Honorary Visiting Research Fellow at the International Centre for Sports History and Culture, De Montfort University, UK DAVID BOULTING is an independent scholar KATHARINE BURKITT teaches at the University of Liege, Belgium WOLFGANG FUNK is a Research Assistant at Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany WENDY HO is Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Davis, USA LUCIA KRÄMER is Lecturer in British Literature and Culture at Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany JESSICA MALAY is Senior Lecturer at the University of Huddersfield, UK DIEGO SAGLIA is Associate Professor of English Literature and Culture at the University of Parma, Italy SVEN SCHMALFUß is Lecturer in Gender Studies at Regensburg University, Germany GERALD SIEGMUND is Professor of Dance Studies at the University of Giessen, Germany

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