Revisions of the American Adam - Innocence, Identity and Masculinity in Twentieth Century America (Hardcover)

The figure of the American Adam is a prevalent mythin US cultural history. Defined by R.W.B. Lewis in 1955 as "the hero of newadventure . . .an individual standing alone, self-reliant and self-propelling, ready to confront whatever awaited him with the aid of his own unique andinherent resources," the figure is discernable in the American renaissancewriters and in the imagery of the frontiersman, cowboy, gangster as well as inthe heroes of US action movies. Focusing on the American Adam as a paradigm of masculine identity formation, this monograph examines how this fantasy of an imaginary ideal identity has held an ideological sway over US identityin the main. Taking in a range of cultural texts, Jonathan Mitchell's study exploresthe complexities and contradictions of Adam's 'real' condition of existence to showhow the paradigm influences both masculinity and subsequently hegemonic USidentity as represented throughout twentieth-century US culture. >

General

Imprint:	Continuum Publishing Corporation
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Continuum Literary Studies
Release date:	2012
First published:	2012
Authors:	Jonathan Mitchell
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	172
ISBN-13:	978-1-4411-8707-9
Languages:	English
Subtitles:	English
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > Film theory & criticism Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
LSN:	1-4411-8707-3
Barcode:	9781441187079

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