Shakespeare and Masculinity in Southern Fiction: Faulkner, Simms, Page, and Dixon

Keener, J.

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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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2008-04-09

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9780230603202

DOI: 10.1057/9780230610194

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 203