| Description |
1 online resource (172 pages) : illustrations, tables. |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
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Continuum Literary Studies Series
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Continuum literary studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgements; 1; The Fall, Among Other Things; 2 ; Postcards from the Frontier; 3; 'The Hero in the Modern World'; 4; From War to Love ... ; 5 ; ... and Back Again; 6; Embattled America; Notes; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
The figure of the American Adam is a prevalent myth in US cultural history. Defined by R.W.B. Lewis in 1955 as ""the hero of new adventure . . .an individual standing alone, self-reliant and self-propelling, ready to confront whatever awaited him with the aid of his own unique and inherent resources"", the figure is discernable in the American renaissance writers and in the imagery of the frontiersman, cowboy, gangster as well as in the heroes of US action movies. Focusing on the American Adam as a paradigm of masculine identity formation, this monograph examines how this fantasy of an imag. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Masculinity in literature.
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Masculinity in literature. |
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Heroic virtue in literature.
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Heroic virtue in literature. |
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Masculinity in popular culture -- United States.
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Masculinity in popular culture. |
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United States. |
| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Mitchell, Jonathan, 1975- Revisions of the American Adam : innocence, identity and masculinity in twentieth-century America. London, England ; New York, New York : Continuum International Publishing, ©2011 163 pages Continuum literary studies. 9781472506436 |
| ISBN |
9781441169525 (e-book) |
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1441169520 (e-book) |
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9781472506436 |
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9781441187079 (hardcover) |
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1441187073 (hardcover) |
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