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Author Snyder, Katherine V.

Title Bachelors, manhood, and the novel, 1850-1925 / Katherine V. Snyder.

Publication Info. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.

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Description 1 online resource (x, 285 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Note Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Yale University.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-278) and index.
Summary "Katherine Snyder's study explores the significance of the bachelor narrator, a prevalent but little recognized figure in premodernist and modernist fiction by male authors, including Hawthorne, James, Conrad, Ford, and, Fitzgerald. Snyder demonstrates that bachelors functioned in cultural and literary discourse as threshold figures who, by crossing the shifting, permeable boundaries of bourgeois domesticity, highlighted the limits of conventional masculinity. The very marginality of the figure, Snyder argues, effects a critique of gendered norms of manhood, while the symbolic function of marriage as a means of plot resolution is also made more complex by the presence of the single man. Bachelor figures made, moreover, an ideal narrative device for male authors who themselves occupied vexed cultural positions."--Jacket.
Contents Trouble in paradise: bachelors and bourgeois domesticity -- Susceptibility and the single man: the constitution of the bachelor invalid -- Artist and a bachelor: Henry James, mastery and the life of art -- Way of looking on: bachelor narration in Joseph Conrad's.
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Subject Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 -- Characters -- Bachelors.
Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924.
Bachelors.
James, Henry, 1843-1916 -- Characters -- Bachelors.
James, Henry, 1843-1916.
Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 -- Characters. Bachelors.
James, Henry, 1843-1916 -- Characters. Bachelors.
Conrad, Joseph, (1857-1924) -- Personnages -- Hommes seuls.
James, Henry, (1843-1916) -- Personnages -- Hommes seuls.
Conrad, Joseph. Under Western eyes.
James, Henry.
American fiction -- Male authors -- History and criticism.
American fiction -- Male authors.
Bachelors in literature.
Bachelors in literature.
American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
American fiction.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
English fiction.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject English fiction -- Male authors -- History and criticism.
English fiction -- Male authors.
English-speaking countries -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
English-speaking countries.
Intellectual life.
Masculinity in literature.
Masculinity in literature.
First person narrative.
First person narrative.
Men in literature.
Men in literature.
Chronological Term 1800-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Snyder, Katherine V. Bachelors, manhood, and the novel, 1850-1925. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999 0521650461 (DLC) 98045687 (OCoLC)40043608
ISBN 051100642X (electronic book)
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0521650461 (hardback)