Detoxing Masculinity in Anglophone Literature and Culture

<p>1. Introduction: Beyond Toxic Patriarchal Masculinity.- Part I. Literature.- 2. The Visible-Invisible ‘Good Man’ in Jane Austen’s The Watsons.- 3. Ishmael’s Detoxing Process: Escaping Domestic Homogeneity in Moby-Dick.- 4. From Brutal to Spiritual Men in T.S. Eliot’s Poetry and Drama: Sweeney and Beyond.- 5. Hybrid Masculinities in D.H. Lawrence’s “The Blind Man” and Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral”.- Part II. Transnational Fictions.- 6. Of Tender Hearts and Good Men: Reading Australian Masculinity in Tim Winton’s Fiction.- 7. “A Good Man is Hard to Find”: The Making of Michael ‘Digger’ Digson.- 8. Black Masculinities in the Age of #BLM: Zadie Smith’s On Beauty.- Part III. Fantasy.- 9. “Some Wizards Just Like to Boast that Theirs Are Bigger and Better”: Harry Potter and the Rejection of Patriarchal Power.- 10. A Lover Boy with Battle Scars: Romance, War Fiction, and the Construction of Peeta Mellark as a Good Man in The Hunger Games Trilogy.- 11. Masculinity and Heroism in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld: The Case of Good Captain Carrot.- Part IV. Science Fiction.- 12. Skywalker: Bad Fathers and Good Sons.- 13. Changing the Script of “Human Is”: Re-Visioning the Good (Hu)Man in Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams.- 14. Between Therapy and Revolution: Mr. Robot’s Ambivalence towards Hacker Masculinity.- Part V. Close to Life.- 15. A Few Good Old Men: Revising Ageing Masculinities in Last Tango in Halifax.- 16. Let the Little Children Come to Me: Fred Rogers, the Good Man as TV Educator.- 17. The Part of the Iceberg That Doesn’t Show: Romance, Good Husbands, and Mr. Julia Child.</p>