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In Dangerous Masculinities, Thomas Strychacz has as his goal nothing less than to turn scholarship on gender and modernism on its head. He focuses on the way some early twentieth-century writers portray masculinity as theatrical performance, and examines why scholars have generally overlooked that fact.

Strychacz argues that writers such as Conrad, Hemingway, and Lawrence--often viewed as misogynist--actually represented masculinity in their works in terms of theatrical and rhetorical performances. They are theatrical in the sense that male characters keep staging themselves in competitive displays; rhetorical in the sense that these characters, and the very narrative form of the works in which they appear, render masculinity a kind of persuasive argument readers can and should debate.

Perhaps most interesting is Strychacz's contention that scholarship has obscured the fact that often these writers were quite critical of masculinity. Writing with a clarity and scope that allows him to both invoke the Schwarzeneggarian "girly man" and borrow from the theories of Judith Butler and Bertolt Brecht, he fashions a critical method with which to explore the ways in which scholars gender texts by the very act of reading.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright
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  1. Contents
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. p. vii
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  1. Introduction
  2. pp. 1-13
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  1. 1. Masculinity Studies, Professionalism, and the Rhetoric of Gender
  2. pp. 14-47
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  1. 2. Making a Mess of Manhood in Hemingway’s “The Capital of the World”
  2. pp. 48-72
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  1. 3. The Construction of Hemingway: Masculine Style and Style-less Masculinity
  2. pp. 73-103
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  1. 4. “Looking at Another Man’s Work”: Theaters of Masculinity in Conrad’s Lord Jim
  2. pp. 104-127
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  1. 5. “Show[ing] Himself as a Man”: Constructions of Manhood in Conrad’s Imperial Theater
  2. pp. 128-158
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  1. 6. Leaving Our Sureties Behind: Lawrence’s Rhetorical Play with Gender Roles
  2. pp. 159-176
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  1. 7. Doing a Double Take: Reading Gender Issues in Women in Love
  2. pp. 177-207
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  1. 8. Conclusion: Lawrence, Positionality, and the Prospects for New Masculinity Studies
  2. pp. 208-221
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  1. Notes
  2. pp. 223-237
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  1. Bibliography
  2. pp. 239-253
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 255-261
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