Jane Austen and Masculinity

Essays in this wide-ranging collection consider representations of men and masculinity in Jane Austen’s fiction and popular adaptations of her novels. As the first volume to specifically address this topic, Jane Austen and Masculinity makes an important critical intervention, and invites further research on gender and sexuality within Austen’s corpus.

List of contents

List of Tables  
 
Acknowledgments      
 
Introduction: Austen and Masculinity           
Michael Kramp
 
Abbreviations 
 
P A R T I :  M E N , D O M E S T I C I T Y , A N D T H E F A M I L Y
1          Sketches of Men’s Kvetches: Domestic Masculinities in Emma and Persuasion      
Jan Fergus
2          Failures of the Patriarchy: Fathers as Role Models in Jane Austen   
Kit Kincade
3          The Paradox of Masculine Agency in Jane Austen’s Early Works     
Joanne Wilkes
 
P A R T  I I :  M A S C U L I N I T Y ,  H O N O R ,  A N D  F E E L I N G
4          “I could meet him in no other way”: Dueling, the Culture of Honor, and Modern Masculinity in Sense and Sensibility
Megan A. Woodworth
5          The Sensibility of Captain Benwick in Literary and Historical Context          
Natasha Duquette
6          “Till he began to stagger her”: Literary Men and Melancholia         
Enit K. Steiner
 
P A R T  I I I :  M A L E  S E X U A L I T I E S  A N D  D E S I R E S
7          Empire of the Sensible: Disciplining Love and the 1990’s Austen Craze      
Carol Siegel and Bryce Campbell
8          Austen’s Dandies: Frank Churchill and Henry Crawford Play Dress Up
Zachary Snider
 
P A R T  I V :  T H E  M E N  O F  A U S T E N ’ S  A F T E R L I V E S
9          Waltzing with Wellington, Biting with Byron: Heroes in Austen’s Tribute Texts
Lisa Hopkins
10        “What a man should be”: (Re-)Imagining Austenian Masculinity in Film and YouTube Fanvids
Rebecca White
11        Virginia Woolf and the Gentlemen Janeites, or the Origins of Modern Austen Criticism, 1870–1929
Jason Solinger
 
P A R T V :  F I L M M U S I C A N D M A S C U L I N I T Y
12        Performing to Strangers: Masculinity, Adaptation, and Music in Pride and Prejudice (1995)
Gayle Magee
13        Austen, Music, and Manhood
Linda Zionkowski and Miriam Hart
 
Bibliography
 
Index
 
About the Contributors
 

About the author

MICHAEL KRAMP is a professor of English at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He is the author of Patriarchy’s Creative Resilience: Late-Victorian Speculative Fiction and Disciplining Love: Austen and the Modern Man and the editor of Jane Austen and Critical Theory.

Product details

Assisted by	Michael Kramp (Editor)
Publisher	Bucknell University Press
Languages	English
Product format	Paperback / Softback
Released	15.11.2024
EAN	9781684485437
ISBN	978-1-68448-543-7
No. of pages	318
Dimensions	152 mm x 226 mm x 23 mm
Weight	431 g
Subject	Fiction > Narrative literature

Product details

• Assisted by: Michael Kramp (Editor)
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.11.2024
• EAN: 9781684485437
• ISBN: 978-1-68448-543-7
• No. of pages: 318
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 226 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 431 g
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature