A multiplicity of selves: the function of authorial celebrity and the evaluation of the author in the novels of Chabon and Wolfe -- Playing at being men: sport in Wolfe's A man in full and The bonfire of the vanities and Chabon's Summerland -- Not so super-men: superheroes and heroes in Chabon's The amazing adventures of Kavalier & Clay and Summerland and Wolfe's The bonfire of the vanities -- The masculine mystique: contextualising masculinity within spiritual discourse in Chabon's The amazing adventures of Kavalier & Clay and Summerland and wolfe's A man in full -- A grand illusion: hegemonic masculinity as escapism in the novels of Chabon and Wolfe