Masculinity in Male-Authored Fiction,

Tracing the influence of masculinity on fictional form and theme through an era of dizzying social change, this timely new book conducts a close analysis of English novels selected for contrasting definitions of the male gender, from the allegedly Angry Young Men to the contemporary confessions of Nick Hornby. The literary period since 1950 is interpreted as one of intense political and stylistic negotiation by male authors with the gendered subject-positions both of fictional characters and those who read about them.

Alice Ferrebe is a Lecturer in English and Creative Technologies at Liverpool John Moores University.

Acknowledgements

ix

1 Introduction

1

(15)

Reading: resisting resistance

3

(5)

Defining masculinity(/-ies?)

8

(4)

The masculine self

12

(4)

2 The Consolations of Conformity

16

(45)

An empirical example

19

(8)

(Middle-)classless aspirations

27

(7)

Addressivity, anxiety and influence

34

(8)

Good, clean, rational fun

42

(7)

'Part-of-a-spending-spree and good-fun-for-all-concerned'

49

(9)

The male text?

58

(3)

3 The Contradictions of Philosophy

61

(43)

Outside the hero

63

(9)

A masculine philosophy?

72

(4)

Choosing to be born

76

(6)

The essentialist existentialist

82

(6)

The masculine gaze

88

(16)

4 Non-Conformity and the Sixties

104

(48)

It came from inner space

109

(13)

In sickness, not in health

122

(7)

Writing the male body

129

(10)

A teenage ball

139

(11)

A rational rebellion

150

(2)

5 Credit for Confession - Gendered Addressivity in the Contemporary Male-Authored Novel

152

(43)

The anti-masculine text

161

(2)

The women's decades?

163

(7)

Confessional increments

170

(6)

Hitting and telling

176

(5)

Ladlit

181

(9)

The daddy of Ladlit

190

(5)

6 Conclusions - Reading to Belie the Binary

195

(5)

Notes

200

(5)

Bibliography

205

(9)

Index

214

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