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...
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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
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Cover; Contents; Introduction; 1 William Gilmore Simms and William Shakespeare; 2 Thomas Nelson Page's Mythmaking and Shakespearean Masculinity; 3 Fear of a Black Planet; 4 Who's Your Daddy?; 5 I'm My Own Grandpa; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index