Boys don't cry? : rethinking narratives of masculinity and emotion in the U.S. / edited by Milette Shamir and Jennifer Travis. - New York : Columbia University Press, 2002. - 288 p.

Machine generated contents note: Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Milette Shamir and Jennifer Travis -- 1 What Feels an American? -- Evident Selves and Alienable Emotions in the New Man' World -- Evan Carton -- 2 Loving with a Vengeance -- Wieland, Familicide and the Crisis ofMasculinity in the Early Nation -- Elizabeth Barnes -- 3 "The Manliest Relations to Men" -- Thoreau on Privacy, Intimacy, and Writing -- Milette Shamir -- 4 Manly Tears -- Men' Elegies for Children in Nineteenth-Century America -- Eric Haralson -- 5 How to be a (Sentimental) Race Man: -- Mourning and Passing in W E. B. Du Boiss The Souls of Black Folk -- Ryan Schneider -- 6 The Law of the Heart -- Emotional Injury and Its Fictions -- Jennifer Travis -- 7 "The Sort of Thing You Should Not Admit" -- Hemingways Aesthetics of Emotional Restraint -- Thomas Strychacz -- 8 Road Work -- Rereading Kerouacs Midcentury Melodrama of Beset Sonhood -- Stephen Davenport -- 9 Men's Tears and the Roles of Melodrama -- Tom Lutz -- 10 Men's Liberation, Men's Wounds -- Emotion, Sexuality, and the Reconstruction ofMasculinity in the I97os -- Sally Robinson -- 11 The Politics of Feeling -- Men, Masculinity, and Mourning on the Capital Mall -- Judith Newton -- Bibliography -- Index. HKBU library

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American literature--History and criticism.
Men in literature.
Men--Attitudes.--United States
Masculinity in literature.
Emotions in literature.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Men--Psychology.

PS173 / B793 2002