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Houdini, Tarzan, and the Perfect Man
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7459281Houdini, Tarzan, and the Perfect Manhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/houdini--tarzan--and-the-perfect-man-9781429930031/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3689086/e14b3c07-1f04-4641-aab0-ed8373a408e9.jpg?v=638803545684500000188229MXNHill and WangInStock/Ebooks/<p><strong>A remarkable new work from one of our premier historians</strong><br />In his exciting new book, John F. Kasson examines the signs of crisis in American life a century ago, signs that new forces of modernity were affecting mens sense of who and what they really were.<br />When the Prussian-born Eugene 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. Then, when Edgar Rice Burroughss Tarzan swung down a vine 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. 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. Kassons 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 --reached a climax in World War I, he suggests, and continues with us today.</p>...3613148Houdini, Tarzan, and the Perfect Man188229https://www.gandhi.com.mx/houdini--tarzan--and-the-perfect-man-9781429930031/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3689086/e14b3c07-1f04-4641-aab0-ed8373a408e9.jpg?v=638803545684500000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20259781429930031_W3siaWQiOiI2MjU4Y2Q3MC05MWEyLTRiOWUtODhiNC02YTU5MjU3MzBlY2UiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjIyOSwiZGlzY291bnQiOjQxLCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjE4OCwiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjUtMDQtMTZUMDA6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjpmYWxzZX1d9781429930031_<p><strong>A remarkable new work from one of our premier historians</strong></p><p>In his exciting new book, John F. Kasson examines the signs of crisis in American life a century ago, signs that new forces of modernity were affecting mens sense of who and what they really were.</p><p>When the Prussian-born Eugene 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. Then, when Edgar Rice Burroughss Tarzan swung down a vine 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. 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. Kassons 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 --reached a climax in World War I, he suggests, and continues with us today.</p>...(*_*)9781429930031_<p><strong>A remarkable new work from one of our premier historians</strong><br />In his exciting new book, John F. Kasson examines the signs of crisis in American life a century ago, signs that new forces of modernity were affecting mens sense of who and what they really were.<br />When the Prussian-born Eugene 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. Then, when Edgar Rice Burroughss Tarzan swung down a vine 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. 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. Kassons 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 --reached a climax in World War I, he suggests, and continues with us today.</p>...9781429930031_Farrar, Straus and Giroux(*_*)9781429930031_Hill and Wanglibro_electonico_9781429930031_9781429930031John F.InglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/openroadmedia-epub-bd270a36-c322-48c9-a468-ffb0ce5613b4.epub2025-04-16T00:00:00+00:00Hill and Wang