"When does it stop? Does it ever stop?" - the business of being a guy: men and masculinities in Carol Shields's novels

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"When does it stop? Does it ever stop?" - the business of being a guy: men and masculinities in Carol Shields's novels

This thesis focuses on the portrayal of men and masculinities in Carol Shields’s novels. There is a conspicuous gap in the scholarly research on Shields's oeuvre which significantly sidelines her male characters. The focus of academic interest often falls on the author's engagement with fe...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Camastra, Małgorzata Maria
Format:	Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:	English
Published:	2014
Subjects:	Carol Shields American literature fiction men masculinity
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/14329/

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