Performing Masculinity

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction....Pages 1-12
Touching Byron: Masculinity and the Celebrity Body in the Romantic Period....Pages 13-27
Turning into Subjects: The Male Dancer in Romantic Ballet....Pages 28-40
Industrial Heroes: Elizabeth Gaskell and Charlotte Brontë’s Constructions of the Masculine....Pages 41-59
Low on Assurance: The Troubled Masculinity of Victorian Comedy....Pages 60-77
Performing Imperial Masculinities: The Discourse and Practice of Cricket....Pages 78-94
‘A Stoat Came to Tea’: Camp Poetics and Masculinity....Pages 95-109
Lethal Enclosure: Masculinity under Fire in James Jones’s The Thin Red Line ....Pages 110-129
In their Fathers’ Footsteps: Performing Masculinity and Fatherhood in the Work of Les Murray and Michael Ondaatje....Pages 130-148
Seeding Asian Masculinities in the US Landscape: Representations of Men’s Lives in Asian American Literature....Pages 149-165
From Glam Rock to Cock Rock: Revis(it)ing Rock Masculinities in Recent Feature Films....Pages 166-184
Histories of Violence — Fairytales of Identity and Masculinity in Martin McDonagh’s The Lieutenant of Inishmore and The Pillowman ....Pages 185-209
‘Ghosts of Sparta’: Performing the God of War’s Virtual Masculinity....Pages 210-233
Back Matter....Pages 234-240