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- catalog abstract ""In his new book, John F. Kasson examines the signs of crisis in American life a century ago, signs that new forces of modernity were affecting men's sense of who and what they really were." "When the Prussian-born Eugen Sandow, an international vaudeville star and bodybuilder, toured the United States in the 1890s, Florenz Ziegfeld cannily presented him as the "perfect man," representing both an ancient ideal of manhood and a modern commodity extolling self-development and self-fulfillment. With Harry Houdini, the dream of escape was literally embodied in spectacular performances in which he triumphed over every kind of threat to masculine integrity - bondage, imprisonment, insanity, and death. Then, when Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan swung from tree to tree and into the public eye in 1912, the fantasy of a perfect white Anglo-Saxon male was taken further, escaping the confines of civilization but reasserting its values, beating his chest and bellowing his triumph to the world. Kasson's liberally illustrated and persuasively argued study analyzes the themes linking these figures and places them in their rich historical and cultural context. Concern with the white male body - with exhibiting it and with the perils to it - suffused American culture in the years before World War I, he suggests, and continues with us today."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12170752.
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""In his new book, John F. Kasson examines the signs of crisis in American life a century ago, signs that new forces of modernity were affecting men's sense of who and what they really were." "When the Prussian-born Eugen Sandow, an international vaudeville star and bodybuilder, toured the United States in the 1890s, Florenz Ziegfeld cannily presented him as the "perfect man," representing both an ancient ideal of manhood and a modern commodity extolling self-development and self-fulfillment. With Harry Houdini, the dream of escape was literally embodied in spectacular performances in which he triumphed over every kind of threat to masculine integrity - bondage, imprisonment, insanity, and death. Then, when Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan swung from tree to tree and into the public eye in 1912, the fantasy of a perfect white Anglo-Saxon male was taken further, escaping the confines of civilization but reasserting its values, beating his chest and bellowing his triumph to the world. Kasson's liberally illustrated and persuasively argued study analyzes the themes linking these figures and places them in their rich historical and cultural context. Concern with the white male body - with exhibiting it and with the perils to it - suffused American culture in the years before World War I, he suggests, and continues with us today."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Who is the perfect man? : Eugen Sandow and a new standard for America -- The manly art of escape : the metamorphoses of Ehrich Weiss -- "Still a wild beast at heart" : Edgar Rice Burroughs and the dream of Tarzan.".
- catalog extent "256 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0809088622 (hc : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Hill and Wang,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "305.31 21".
- catalog subject "Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950.".
- catalog subject "HQ1090.3 .K39 2001".
- catalog subject "Houdini, Harry, 1874-1926.".
- catalog subject "Human body Social aspects United States.".
- catalog subject "Masculinity in popular culture United States History.".
- catalog subject "Men in popular culture United States History.".
- catalog subject "Sandow, Eugen, 1867-1925.".
- catalog subject "Tarzan (Fictitious character)".
- catalog tableOfContents "Who is the perfect man? : Eugen Sandow and a new standard for America -- The manly art of escape : the metamorphoses of Ehrich Weiss -- "Still a wild beast at heart" : Edgar Rice Burroughs and the dream of Tarzan.".
- catalog title "Houdini, Tarzan, and the perfect man : the White male body and the challenge of modernity in America / John F. Kasson.".
- catalog type "text".