Mankind in Barbary: The Individual and Society in the Novels of Norman Mailer
Stanley T. Gutman's Mankind in Barbary (1975), one of the first book-length critical studies of Mailer's novels, reading them through the tension between the individual and society. An about-Mailer monograph.
Stanley T. Gutman. Mankind in Barbary: The Individual and Society in the Novels of Norman Mailer. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1975.
One of the first book-length critical studies of Mailer’s fiction, reading the novels — from The Naked and the Dead through The Deer Park and An American Dream — through the recurring tension between the individual and society named in its title. A secondary monograph outside the Lennon primary register (no legacy id).