Joseph B. Keener is Assistant Professor of English at Dalton State College.
The book advances the idea that American, Southern, white, planter class authors have appropriated models and modes of masculinity from William Shakespeare. Keener traces the history of this appropriation and its attendant masculinities from authors as early as William Gilmore Simms, through Thomas Nelson Page and Thomas Dixon, to William Faulkner.
William Gilmore Simms and William Shakespeare: Combining the Father and Son Thomas Nelson Page's Mythmaking and Shakespearean Masculinity Fear of a Black Planet: Thomas Dixon, Jr. and the Narration of the Self Via an Other Who's Your Daddy? William Faulkner's Making of the Father and Son I'm My Own Grandpa: Quentin Compson's Shakespearean Solution
"A unique, lively text.... Keener traces the textual and historical evolutions of the idea of Shakespeare as the literary-cultural father through three successive Southern figures, with their distinct appropriations and re-inillegalscriptions, not only of Shakespeare, but also of a distinct body of Southern Shakespearean appropriations and re-inillegalscriptions." - Philip Beidler, Professor of English, University of Alabama and series editor for Signs of Race
Über den Autor
Joseph B. Keener is Assistant Professor of English at Dalton State College.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
William Gilmore Simms and William Shakespeare: Combining the Father and Son Thomas Nelson Page's Mythmaking and Shakespearean Masculinity Fear of a Black Planet: Thomas Dixon, Jr. and the Narration of the Self Via an Other Who's Your Daddy? William Faulkner's Making of the Father and Son I'm My Own Grandpa: Quentin Compson's Shakespearean Solution
Klappentext
The book advances the idea that American, Southern, white, planter class authors have appropriated models and modes of masculinity from William Shakespeare. Keener traces the history of this appropriation and its attendant masculinities from authors as early as William Gilmore Simms, through Thomas Nelson Page and Thomas Dixon, to William Faulkner.
Multidisciplinary: This monograph will appeal to scholars in Shakespeare studies, gender studies, American Literature Studies and Southern Studies Shakespeare sells well: Books relating to Shakespeare Studies continue to be of perennial interest. This books discusses major works like Hamlet , Henry the IV / Henry the V , As You Like It and Much Ado About Nothing Established writers: Keener focuses on well-known southern novelists such as Faulkner and Dixon. The history of appropriation of Shakespeare (as a patriarch and deified) and his attention to masculinity is a focus that shed new light on major Shakespearean characters as well as male figures in southern fiction
