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Author Thompson, Graham, 1965-

Title Male sexuality under surveillance : the office in American literature / Graham Thompson.

Publication Info. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2003]
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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 248 pages)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-243) and index.
Contents The rhetoric of the office in Melville's "Bartleby, the scrivener" -- The business of sexuality in The rise of Silas Lapham -- The businessman and the fairy child in Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt -- From Babbittry to Gray flannel via tropical incoporation -- Sloan Wilson's Gray flannel man in the queer organization -- Fear, paranoia, and self-pity in Joseph Heller's Something happened -- Shoelaces, social energy, and sexuality in Nicholson Baker's The mezzanine and The fermata -- Microserfs, modern migration, and the architecture of the 1990s.
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Summary Male Sexuality under Surveillance is a lively, intelligent, and expertly argued analysis of the construction of male sexuality in the business office. Graham Thompson interweaves three main threads: a historicized cultural analysis of the development of the modern business office from its beginnings in the early nineteenth century to the present day, a Foucauldian discussion of the office as the site of various disciplinary practices, and a queer-theoretical discussion of the textualization of the gay male body as a device for producing a taxonomy of male-male relations. The combination of the.
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Subject Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Bartleby, the scrivener.
Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920. Rise of Silas Lapham.
Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951. Babbitt.
Babbitt (Lewis, Sinclair) (OCoLC)fst01356762
Bartleby, the scrivener (Melville, Herman) (OCoLC)fst01357816
American fiction -- History and criticism.
Offices in literature.
Sex (Psychology) in literature.
Sex in literature.
Men in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
American fiction. (OCoLC)fst00807048
Men in literature. (OCoLC)fst01016054
Offices in literature. (OCoLC)fst01044259
Sex in literature. (OCoLC)fst01114464
Sex (Psychology) in literature. (OCoLC)fst01114239
Littérature américaine.
Thème littéraire.
Bureau.
Identité masculine.
Sexualité masculine.
Identité (Psychologie)
Homme.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
Other Form: Print version: Thompson, Graham, 1965- Male sexuality under surveillance. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2003 0877458480 (DLC) 2002035378 (OCoLC)50866782
ISBN 1587294400 (electronic bk.)
9781587294402 (electronic bk.)
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