Beards and Masculinity in American Literature

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Acknowledgments
Introduction
	Ever-Growing Research and Writing on Beards and Facial Hair
1 The Barbershop in American Literature
	Barbers and Barbershops in Early American Writing: Newspapers and Magazines
	First Tales in the Barbershop
	Barbers and Blackness: Race and Violence in the American Barbershop
	The Barbershop and White Male Nostalgia
2 The Need for a Shave: Beards in Masculinity in Ernest Hemingway’s Fiction
	Hemingway’s Beard
	Hemingway’s Narratives of (Bearded) Masculinity
	Pretentious Beards in Hemingway’s Fiction
	Men Needing a Shave: The Sun Also Rises (1927)
	Hemingway’s Men Resisting the Beard: A Farewell to Arms (1929)
	Americans and Their Beards: For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
	Hemingway’s Fixation With Facial Hair
3 The Bards and Their Beards: Walt Whitman’s “Beard Full of Butterflies” in the Poetry of Federico García Lorca and Allen Ginsberg
	The Beard in Whitman Scholarship
	Influence of Whitman’s Beard
	Beards in Whitman’s Poetry
	First Edition of Leaves of Grass
	Beards and Butterflies: Walt Whitman and Federico García Lorca
	Federico García Lorca and the Beard
	Lorca Walking With Whitman
	Ginsberg Rediscovering Whitman (and His Beard)
4 The Beard, Masculinity, and the Other in the Post-9/11 Novel
	Queering the Terrorist Beard
	The Global Citizen and The Contemporary Beard: Amy Waldman’s The Submission (2011)
Epilogue
Index