Updike and the Patriarchal Dilemma: Masculinity in the Rabbit Novels
- ISBN-10
- 0809319497
- ISBN-13
- 9780809319497
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 268
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1996
- Publisher
- SIU Press
- Author
- Mary O'Connell
Description
A disturbing element exists, O'Connell determines, in both the texts of the Rabbit novels and in the critical community that examines them. In the novels, O'Connell finds substantial evidence to demonstrate patterns of psychological and physical abuse toward women, citing as the culminating example the mounting toll of literally or metaphorically dead women in the texts.
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