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Jane Austen and Masculinity provides a diverse selection of critical essays on representations of men and masculinity in Austen's work. This anthology will attract interest from scholars of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature as well as gender studies scholars who are interested in the widening scope of masculinity studies.
List of contents
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Austen and Masculinity by Michael Kramp
Part I: Men, Domesticity, and the Family
Chapter 1: Sketches of Men's Kvetches: Domestic Masculinities in Emma and Persuasion
by Jane Fergus
Chapter 2: Failures of the Patriarchy: Fathers as Role Models in Jane Austen by Kit Kincade
Chapter 3: The Paradox of Masculine Agency in Jane Austen's Early Works by Joanne Wilkes
Part 11: Masculinity, Honor, and Feeling
Chapter 4: 'I could meet him in no other way': Dueling, the Culture of Honor, and Modern Masculinity in Sense and Sensibility by Megan Woodworth
Chapter 5: The Sensibility of Captain Benwick in Literary and Historical Context by Natasha Duquette
Chapter 6: 'Till he began to stagger her': Melancholia and Literary Men by Enit K. Steiner
Part III: Male Sexualities and Desires
Chapter 7: Empire of the Sensible: Disciplining Love and the 1990's Austen Craze by Carol Siegel and Bryce Campbell
Chapter 8: Austen's Dandies: Frank Churchill and Henry Crawford Play Dress Up by Zachary Snider
Part IV: The Men of Austen's Afterlives
Chapter 9: Waltzing with Wellington, Biting with Byron: Heroes in Austen's Tribute Texts by Lisa Hopkins
Chapter 10: 'What a man should be': (Re-)Imaginign Austenian Masculinity in Film and YouTube Fanvids by R.A. White
Chapter 11: Virginia Woolf & the Gentlemen Janeites, or the Origins of Modern Austen Criticism, 1870-1929 by Jason Solinger
Part V: Film Music and Masculinity
Chapter 12: Performing to Strangers: Masculinity, Adaptation, and Music in Pride and Prejudice by Gayle Magee
Chapter 13: Austen, Music, and Manhood by Linda Zionkowski and Miriam Hart
Bibliography
Index
About the Contributors
About the author
Michael Kramp is associate professor of English at Lehigh University.
Summary
Jane Austen and Masculinity provides a diverse selection of critical essays on representations of men and masculinity in Austen’s work. This anthology will attract interest from scholars of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature as well as gender studies scholars who are interested in the widening scope of masculinity studies.
