American Manscapes
Richard Poirier, 12 October 1989
Manhood and the American Renaissance
by David Leverenz.
Cornell, 372 pp., $35.75, April 1989,0 8014 2281 7 Show More
by David Leverenz.
Cornell, 372 pp., $35.75, April 1989,
“... Spenser, Marlowe, the Shakespeare of Coriolanus, the Milton of Paradise Lost, Byron, Shelley, Fielding and Scott. Most of these were more widely read in pre-Civil War America than were any male American writers. With some notable exceptions early on, like F.O. Matthiessen, Marius Bewley and Leslie Fiedler, in Harold Bloom’s critical admixture of Emerson ... ”