Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Touching Byron: Masculinity and the Celebrity Body in the Romantic Period

Chapter 3 Turning into Subjects: The Male Dancer in Romantic Ballet

Chapter 4 Industrial Heroes: Elizabeth Gaskell and Charlotte Brontë’s Constructions of the Masculine

Chapter 5 Low on Assurance: The Troubled Masculinity of Victorian Comedy

Chapter 6 Performing Imperial Masculinities: The Discourse and Practice of Cricket

Chapter 8 Lethal Enclosure: Masculinity under Fire in James Jones’s The Thin Red Line

Chapter 9 In their Fathers’ Footsteps: Performing Masculinity and Fatherhood in the Work of Les Murray and Michael Ondaatje

Chapter 10 Seeding Asian Masculinities in the US Landscape: Representations of Men’s Lives in Asian American Literature

Chapter 11 From Glam Rock to Cock Rock: Revis(it)ing Rock Masculinities in Recent Feature Films

Chapter 12 Histories of Violence — Fairytales of Identity and Masculinity in Martin McDonagh’s The Lieutenant of Inishmore and The Pillowman

Chapter 13 ‘Ghosts of Sparta’: Performing the God of War’s Virtual Masculinity