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1 online resource (xxi, 248 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-243) and index. |
| Contents |
The rhetoric of the office in Melville's "Bartleby, the scrivener" -- The business of sexuality in The rise of Silas Lapham -- The businessman and the fairy child in Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt -- From Babbittry to Gray flannel via tropical incoporation -- Sloan Wilson's Gray flannel man in the queer organization -- Fear, paranoia, and self-pity in Joseph Heller's Something happened -- Shoelaces, social energy, and sexuality in Nicholson Baker's The mezzanine and The fermata -- Microserfs, modern migration, and the architecture of the 1990s. |
| Summary |
Male Sexuality under Surveillance is a lively, intelligent, and expertly argued analysis of the construction of male sexuality in the business office. Graham Thompson interweaves three main threads: a historicized cultural analysis of the development of the modern business office from its beginnings in the early nineteenth century to the present day, a Foucauldian discussion of the office as the site of various disciplinary practices, and a queer-theoretical discussion of the textualization of the gay male body as a device for producing a taxonomy of male-male relations. The combination of the. |
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| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Bartleby, the scrivener.
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Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920. Rise of Silas Lapham.
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Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951. Babbitt.
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Howells, W. D. (William Dean), 1837-1920. Rise of Silas Lapham. |
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Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Bartleby, the scrivener. |
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Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920. Rise of Silas Lapham. |
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Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951. Babbitt. |
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Babbitt (Lewis, Sinclair) |
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Bartleby, the scrivener (Melville, Herman) |
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American fiction -- History and criticism.
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American fiction. |
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Offices in literature.
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Offices in literature. |
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Sex (Psychology) in literature.
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Sex (Psychology) in literature. |
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Sex in literature.
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Sex in literature. |
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Men in literature.
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Men in literature. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Print version: Thompson, Graham, 1965- Male sexuality under surveillance. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2003 0877458480 (DLC) 2002035378 (OCoLC)50866782 |
| ISBN |
1587294400 (electronic book) |
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9781587294402 (electronic book) |
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9780877458487 |
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0877458480 |
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