Beards and masculinity in American literature / Peter Ferry.
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TextSeries: Publisher: New York : Routledge, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resourceContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781315106410; 1315106418; 9781351604765; 1351604767; 9781351604772; 1351604775; 9781351604789; 1351604783Subject(s): American literature -- History and criticism | Beards in literature | Masculinity in literature | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Men's Studies | LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender StudiesDDC classification: 810.9/353 LOC classification: PS169.B43 | F37 2020Online resources: Taylor & Francis | OCLC metadata license agreement Summary: 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.
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.
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