Women Constructing Men - Female Novelists and Their Male Characters, 1750-2000

Informationen zum Autor Edited by Sarah S. G. Frantz and Katharina Rennhak - Contributions by Sarah Ailwood; Katherine Bode; Frederick Burwick; Rainer Emig; Sarah S. G. Frantz; George E. Haggerty; Roxanne Harde; Angela Laflen; Shawn Lisa Maurer; Ellen McWilliams; Sara Pearson an Klappentext Female novelists have always invested as much narrative energy in constructing their male characters as in envisioning their female. The collected articles in Women Constructing Men demonstrate that the topic of female-authored masculinities not only allows scholars to re-discover almost every novel written by a woman, but also triggers reflections on a host of theoretical questions of gender and genre. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Female Novelists and Their Male Characters, 1750-2000: An Introduction Chapter 2 Happy Men?: Mid-Eighteenth-Century Women Writers and Ideal Masculinity Chapter 3 Male Privilege in Frances Burney's The Wanderer Chapter 4 The Medium Makes the Man: Anne Plumptre's Something New and The History of Myself and My Friend Chapter 5 "Too much in the common Novel style": Reforming Masculinities in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility Chapter 6 Constructing Masculine Narrative: Charlotte Brontë's The Professor Chapter 7 The Lifted Veil: George Eliot's Experiment with First-Person Narrative Chapter 8 Assimilating the "pretty youngster": George Eliot's Eroticized Men on the Borderlines of Morality, Religion, Race, and Nation Chapter 9 "His spirituality or his manliness": Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's (Re)Constructions of Christian Masculinity Chapter 10 The Differential Construction of Masculinity in the Writings of Virginia Woolf Chapter 11 Knitting Paradise Lost: Masculinity and Domesticity in the Novels of Carol Shields Chapter 12 Looking (Im)Properly: Women Objectifying Men's Bodies in Contemporary Australian Women's Fiction Chapter 13 Unmaking the Self-Made Man: Louise Erdrich's Fictional Exploration of Masculinity Chapter 14 "I've tried my entire life to be a good man": Suzanne Brockmann's Sam Starrett, Ideal Romance Hero...

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• Authors: Sarah/ Rennhak Frantz
• Assisted by: Sarah S. G. Frantz (Editor), Frantz Sarah S. G. (Editor), Katharina Rennhak (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2010
• EAN: 9780739133668
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-3366-8
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; English, 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, C 1700 To C 1800, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form, Gender and Women's History