Henry James and the Suspense of Masculinity
Using insights from feminist studies, men''s studies, and gay and queer studies, Leland Person examines Henry James''s subversion of male identity and the challenges he poses to conventional constructs of heterosexual masculinity. Sexual and gender categories proliferated in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and Person argues that James exploited the taxonomic confusion of the times to...
Using insights from feminist studies, men''s studies, and gay and queer studies, Leland Person examines Henry James''s subversion of male identity and the challenges he poses to conventional constructs of heterosexual masculinity. Sexual and gender categories proliferated in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and Person argues that James exploited the taxonomic confusion of the times to...
