Between Profits and Primitivism

Athena Devlin's work on gender has appeared in TheColumbia Journal of American Studies and the anthology Women: Images and Realities. In addition to working on several public history projects and documentaries, she has taught American Studies and Literature at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she earned her Ph.D., and St. Francis College in Brooklyn.

• Introduction1. Managing the Middle-Class Male Body in the Age of Efficiency2. The Male Body and the Market Economy: the Case of Dreiser's Frank Cowperwood3. Male Hysteria and the Gendering of the Subconscious4. Shapes that Haunt the Dusk: Masculinity and the Supernatural Experience in Fiction