Table of Contents:
  • Inside and outside the ring : the establishment of a masculinist aesthetic sensibility
  • "Subtle brotherhood" in Stephen Crane's tales of adventure : alienation, anxiety, and the rites of manhood
  • "Beauty unmans me" : diminished manhood and the leisure class in Norris and Wharton
  • "A man only in form" : the roots of naturalism in African American literature.