UID:
almahu_9949386080002882
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9781315106410
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1315106418
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9781351604765
,
1351604767
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9781351604772
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1351604775
,
9781351604789
,
1351604783
Series Statement:
Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature
Content:
Beards and Masculinity in American Literature is a pioneering study of the symbolic power of the beard in the history of American writing. This book covers the entire breadth of American writing - from 18th century American newspapers and periodicals through the 19th and 20th centuries to recent contemporary engagements with the beard and masculinity. With chapters focused on the barber and the barbershop in American writing, the "need for a shave" in Ernest Hemingway's fiction, Whitman's beard as a sanctuary for poets reaching out to the bearded bard, and the contemporary re-engagement with the beard as a symbol of Otherness in post-9/11 fiction, Beards and Masculinity in American Literature underlines the symbolic power of facial hair in key works of American writing
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 1138093769
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781138093768
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
DOI:
10.4324/9781315106410
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315106410
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