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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 these themes produces a study that is fresh, insightful, and provocative. Moreover, this intriguing study simultaneously provides readings of primary texts—ranging from 1853 to 1995—that contribute substantially to scholarship on these works while advancing and deepening the theoretical discussions from which Male Sexuality under Surveillance derives its premises. Thompson has divided his analysis into three sections. Part 1 examines the boundaries of male friendship in Herman Melville's “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” William Dean Howells's The Rise of Silas Lapham, and Sinclair Lewi

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Author

Graham Thompson, 1965-

Publisher

University of Iowa Press; University Of Iowa Press

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9781587294402

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Psychology, Literary Criticism