The book advances the idea that American, Southern, white, planter class authors have appropriated models and modes of masculinity from William Shakespeare. Keener traces the history of this appropriation and its attendant masculinities from authors as early as William Gilmore Simms, through Thomas Nelson Page and Thomas Dixon, to William Faulkner.

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"A unique, lively text.... Keener traces the textual and historical evolutions of the idea of Shakespeare as the literary-cultural father through three successive Southern figures, with their distinct appropriations and re-inscriptions, not only of Shakespeare, but also of a distinct body of Southern Shakespearean appropriations and re-inscriptions." - Philip Beidler, Professor of English, University of Alabama and series editor for Signs of Race

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Joseph B. Keener is Assistant Professor of English at Dalton State College.

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Book Title: Shakespeare and Masculinity in Southern Fiction
Book Subtitle: Faulkner, Simms, Page, and Dixon
Authors: Joseph B. Keener
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230610194
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-230-60320-2Published: 09 April 2008
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-61019-4Published: 04 February 2008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 203
Topics: Poetry and Poetics, North American Literature, Gender Studies, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary Theory, British and Irish Literature

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

Front Matter

William Gilmore Simms and William Shakespeare

Thomas Nelson Page’s Mythmaking and Shakespearean Masculinity

Fear of a Black Planet

Who’s your daddy?

I’m My Own Grandpa

Epilogue

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