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Shakespeare and Masculinity in Southern Fiction
Joseph B. Keener
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Description for Shakespeare and Masculinity in Southern Fiction
Paperback. The book advances the idea that American, Southern, white, planter class authors have appropriated models and modes of masculinity from William Shakespeare. Keener traces the history of this appropriation and its attendant masculinities from authors as early as William Gilmore Simms, through Thomas Nelson Page and Thomas Dixon, to William Faulkner. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSGS; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 217 x 164 x 16. Weight in Grams: 352.
The book advances the idea that American, Southern, white, planter class authors have appropriated models and modes of masculinity from William Shakespeare. Keener traces the history of this appropriation and its attendant masculinities from authors as early as William Gilmore Simms, through Thomas Nelson Page and Thomas Dixon, to William Faulkner.
The book advances the idea that American, Southern, white, planter class authors have appropriated models and modes of masculinity from William Shakespeare. Keener traces the history of this appropriation and its attendant masculinities from authors as early as William Gilmore Simms, through Thomas Nelson Page and Thomas Dixon, to William Faulkner.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
218
Condition
New
Number of Pages
203
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230603202
SKU
V9780230603202
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About Joseph B. Keener
Joseph B. Keener is Assistant Professor of English at Dalton State College.
Reviews for Shakespeare and Masculinity in Southern Fiction
"A unique, lively text.... Keener traces the textual and historical evolutions of the idea of Shakespeare as the literary-cultural father through three successive Southern figures, with their distinct appropriations and re-inscriptions, not only of Shakespeare, but also of a distinct body of Southern Shakespearean appropriations and re-inscriptions." - Philip Beidler, Professor of English, University of Alabama and series editor for ... Read more