Shakespeare and Masculinity in Southern Fiction

Joseph B. Keener is Assistant Professor of English at Dalton State College.

• William Gilmore Simms and William Shakespeare: Combining the Father and Son Thomas Nelson Page's Mythmaking and Shakespearean Masculinity Fear of a Black Planet: Thomas Dixon, Jr. and the Narration of the Self Via an Other Who's Your Daddy? William Faulkner's Making of the Father and Son I'm My Own Grandpa: Quentin Compson's Shakespearean Solution

"A unique, lively text.... Keener traces the textual and historical evolutions of the idea of Shakespeare as the literary-cultural father through three successive Southern figures, with their distinct appropriations and re-inscriptions, not only of Shakespeare, but also of a distinct body of Southern Shakespearean appropriations and re-inscriptions." - Philip Beidler, Professor of English, University of Alabama and series editor for Signs of Race