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The yuppie as the new frontiersman : the gentrification of Manhattan in the 1980s and yuppie culture and masculinity in Jay McInerney's "Bright Lights, Big City" and Bret Easton Ellis's "American Psycho"

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Title	The yuppie as the new frontiersman : the gentrification of Manhattan in the 1980s and yuppie culture and masculinity in Jay McInerney's "Bright Lights, Big City" and Bret Easton Ellis's "American Psycho"
Author	Leonard, Kristy
Abstract/Introduction	The inauguration of Ronald Reagan as President of the United States and his economic policy, nicknamed "Reaganomics" which in part deregulated the stock market, brought about great social change in the U.S. during the 1980s (Niskanen). The change is exemplified in Manhattan with the emergence of the Wall Street yuppie culture. Newsweek dubbed 1984 the Year of the Yuppie (Girard 168). Manhattan became the new urban frontier, where the yuppies, confined to Upper Manhattan, were trying to conquer other neighborhoods by marginalizing the middle and lower classes; these actions are similar to early Americans who, believing in Manifest Destiny, set out to expand the United States' border to reach the Pacific Ocean. Men led the first frontier advancement and their masculinity was defined relative to boyhood according to social interactions like family relations, friendships, employment, and romantic relationships. With the close of the frontier in 1890, men were encouraged to partake in and support U.S. imperialism, conquering new (and foreign) frontiers (Rotundo 235). When compared, although time and technological advances distinguish the period following the North American frontier and the 1980s, the conceptions of masculinity of both the imperialist frontiersmen and the yuppies of the 80s were defined using "military ideals" (Rotundo 235). In Jay McInerney's novel Bright Lights, Big City (1984) and Bret Easton Ellis's novel American Psycho (1992), we see one male character who fails to live up to yuppie ideals of masculinity and one male character who emerges as the embodiment of those ideals and conquers the new urban frontier.
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Degree	B.A.
Degree Program	English
Department	Department of English
Thesis Advisor	Verner, Lisa R.
Advisory Committee	Hazlett, John D.; Johnson, Edward R.
Date Degree Awarded	2008; *
Rights	The University of New Orleans and its agents retain the non-exclusive license to archive and make accessible this thesis in whole or in part in all forms of media, now or hereafter known. The author retains all other ownership rights to the copyright of the thesis.
Notes	December 2008; approved December 5, 2008.
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