Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Finding Yourself in New York 2. Walking Manhattan, Writing Masculinity: (Re-)Introducing the New York Flâneur with E.B. White’s Here Is New York and Joshua Ferris’ The Unnamed 3. "The Son Saves The Father": Counter-Hegemonic Father Figures in Paul Auster’s Fiction 4. "Because I Want To Fit In": The Influence of the Male Peer Group in Bret Easton Ellis’ American Psycho 5. "A World Citizen with a New York Pair of Balls": The Global Hegemonic Male in Don DeLillo’s Cosmopolis

About the Author

Peter Ferry is currently an Irish Research Council funded Postdoctoral Fellow at University College Dublin, Ireland. He has published articles on the flâneur, Freud and masculinity, fatherhood and masculinity, and the beard and masculinity in contemporary American fiction in leading journals in both the fields of American Literary Studies and Gender and Masculinity Studies. His current project is focused on the flaneur and masculinity in 19th century American Writing.