Validating Bachelorhood: Audience, Patriarchy and Charles Brockden Brown's Editorship of the Monthly Magazine and American Review

by Scott Slawinski

Overview

This book explores images of single and married men in C.B. Brown's Monthly Magazine and concludes that Brown used his periodical as a vehicle for validating bachelorhood as a viable alternative form of masculinity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415971782
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/04/2005
Series:	Studies in American Popular History and Culture
Pages:	140
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Scott Slawinski is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Western Michigan University.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. Women Need Not Read On: Magazines in the Early Republic and the Gendered Audience of the Monthly Magazine 3. Constructions of Masculinity and Brown's Male Reader 4. Marriage and Bachelorhood: Fiction in the Monthly Magazine 5. Prospects

Editorial Reviews

'Slawinski's book is well written and intelligent, useful both for the lesson it provides in how to derive meaning from the often-ignored late eighteenth-century periodical literature and its call for greater attention to masculinity in history and literature.' – The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography

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