Performing Masculinity

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.

• comedy
• identity
• Romanticism
• Victorian era

'...remarkable, and startling...' - CHOICE

• Leibniz University in Hanover, Germany

  Rainer Emig

• University of Salford in Greater Manchester, UK

  Antony Rowland

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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