In Stalinist Russia, the idealized Soviet man projected an image of strength, virility, and unyielding drive in his desire to build a powerful socialist state. In monuments, posters, and other tools of cultural production, he became the demigod of Communist ideology. But beneath…
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"This book is a critical and cultural theory-based study of male jealousy in western culture and its connections with paranoia. By tracing the meanings of jealousy and the representation of jealous men (married or unmarried, heterosexual or homosexual), Lo argues that jealousy i…
Male Jealousy: Literature and Film is a critical and cultural theory-based study of male jealousy in western culture and its connections with paranoia. By tracing the meanings of jealousy and the representation of jealous men (married or unmarried, heterosexual or homosexual), L…
This collection of essays looks at British middlebrow writing and reading from the late Victorian period to the 1950s, examining a specifically masculine trend in a largely unexplored stream of literary and publishing culture. It reconsiders what was being reacted against by the…
Erin Mackie explores the shared histories of the modern polite English gentleman and other less respectable but no less celebrated 18th century masculine types: the rake, the highwayman, and the pirate.