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Reading the Male Gaze in Literature and Culture - Studies in Erotic Epistemology
of: James D. Bloom
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017
ISBN: 9783319599458 , 230 Pages
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Reading the Male Gaze in Literature and Culture - Studies in Erotic Epistemology
Acknowledgements
7
Contents
8
Chapter 1 Introduction: The Shelf Life of a Meme
9
The Title
9
Past Mastery: Choices and Impediments
12
The Post-Mulvey Conversation
13
The Apprentice
15
The Material and the Setup
16
Chapter 2 Coming Clean: Readings, Confessions, Shortcuts
18
After and Before
23
Avant La Lettre
26
Invokers and Provokers
27
Humanities Gazer
28
The Uphill Cul-De-Sac—Pardon My French
35
Romantic Gestures?
37
Rock of Gazes
42
Clowning vs. Gazing
50
The Limits of Reciprocity
53
As The Gazer Ages
55
Joint Custody
57
Attention/At-Ease
66
Chapter 3 American Fiction: Gaze Canon
70
The Farmer’s Daughter, the Seamstress and the Papist
70
From not Pretty to Pretty
75
Women Kept and Unkept
80
Let Gertrude Stein Call You Sweetheart
93
Beauty out of Place—Gazing Across the Color Line
103
Struggles Continue
112
Body Shopping
120
Letting Go
122
“Unaesthetic”
123
Chapter 4 Scopes on Trial
126
Men and Their Equipment
126
Gentlemen
133
In an Emergency
135
“What Maidens Loth?”
137
Opposing Selves
142
Objects
145
From Windows 0.0 to Kaleidoscopy
151
Warehouse Eyes
159
Chapter 5 American Fiction After Mulvey
171
Chapter 6 British Invasions Post-Bar Mitzvah
195
London Calling
197
Birdwatching and Stargazing
205
Works Cited
209
Index
224
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