Download or read book Acts of Manhood written by K. Kippola and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-08-20 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the performance of masculinity on and off the nineteenth-century American stage, this book looks at the shift from the passionate muscularity to intellectual restraint as not a linear journey toward national refinement; but a multitude of masculinities fighting simultaneously for dominance and recognition.