Men in literature
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Behold the man
Naming thy name
The poetics of sexual myth
Men and the Goddess
The American Gentleman
Catullus and the Poetics of Roman Manhood
All quiet on the western front
Chaucer's approach to gender in the Canterbury tales
Acting Like Men
Boys don't cry?
The English gentleman
The Burdens of Intimacy
Arthur Conan Doyle and the meaning of masculinity
Masculinity and Emotion in Early Modern English Literature (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World)
The male body
The Bloomsday book
To deny our nothingness
Writing masculinities
American Sympathy
Willa Cather's sexual aesthetics and the male homosexual literary tradition
James Joyce's Ulysses
Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt
Man's estate
Parts of an andrology
Eros
The yard of wit
Manly Leaders in Nineteenth-Century British Literature (S U N Y Series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century)
Close Readers
Masculinist impulses
Women writing about men
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