Performing Masculinity

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.

Notes on Contributors Foreword; J.Bristow Introduction; R.Emig and A.Rowland Touching Byron: Masculinity and the Celebrity Body in the Romantic Period; D.Saglia Turning into Subjects: The Male Dancer in Romantic Ballet; G.Siegmund Industrial Heroes: Elizabeth Gaskell and Charlotte Brontë''s Constructions of the Masculine; J.L.Malay Low on Assurance: The Troubled Masculinity of Victorian Comedy; R.Emig Performing Imperial Masculinities: The Discourse and Practice of Cricket; A.Bateman ''A Stoat Came to Tea'': Camp Poetics and Masculinity; A.Rowland Lethal Enclosure: Masculinity under Fire in James Jones''s The Thin Red Line; D.Boulting In their Fathers'' Footsteps: Performing Masculinity and Fatherhood in the Work of Les Murray and Michael Ondaatje; K.Burkitt Seeding Asian Masculinities in the U.S. Landscape: Representations of Men''s Lives in Asian American Literature; W.Ho From Glam Rock to Cock Rock: Revis(it)ing Rock Masculinities in Recent Feature Films; L.Krämer Histories of Violence - Fairytales of Identity and Masculinity in Martin McDonagh''s The Lieutenant of Inishmore and The Pillowman; W.Funk ''Ghosts of Sparta'': Performing the God of War''s Virtual Masculinity; S.Schmalfuß Notes Index