Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Masculinity as Fiction -- Telling and Being -- The Abuses of Enchantment -- Masculinity and 'English' -- 2 The Portrait of the Artist as a Man -- The Ebony Tower --...
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Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Masculinity as Fiction -- Telling and Being -- The Abuses of Enchantment -- Masculinity and 'English' -- 2 The Portrait of the Artist as a Man -- The Ebony Tower -- The Woman in the Reeds -- Fathers and Gods -- 3 Fictional Forefathers: Conrad and Lawrence -- Beckoning Shadows Dire -- Women in Love -- Discourse and Knowledge -- Men in Love -- Art and its Interpreters -- 4 Male Narratives -- The Great Game -- Life Stories -- Notes from Underground -- Mortifying the Flesh -- 5 Male Impersonators -- The Man who Loved Children -- The Politics of the Family -- The Conservationist -- A Local Habitation -- Flieht between Worlds -- 6 Men in Time -- The Fatherland of Graham Swift -- 'The Wean and That': Paternity and Domesticity in The Buscondudor Hines -- In Search of Lost Languages -- The Child in Time -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.