Patriarchys Creative Resilience - Late Victorian Speculative Fiction

Patriarchy's Creative Resilience explores the disturbing sustainability of white male supremacy.

List of contents

Introduction Patriarchy's Creative Resilience and the Hopes of Imaginative Horizons
Chapter I Framing Threats, Sustaining White Male Supremacy: The Imaginative Work of Victorian Patriarchy
Chapter II Remaking England, Refashioning Hegemonic Masculinity, Sustaining Patriarchy
Chapter III Controlling Dangerous Women in The Coming Race and Flatland
Chapter IV Justifying Patriarchy: Performing Male Sovereignty in The Revolt of Man and Vice Versa
Chapter V Patriarchy's Ultimate Resilience: Authoritarian Masculinity in The Inner House and Ionia
Chapter VI Conclusion: Patriarchal Strategies of Division in Late Nineteenth-Century Feminist Utopias
Afterword

About the author

Michael Kramp is Professor of English at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA, U.S.A. He received his Ph.D. in English from Washington State University, where he was the Charles Blackburn Fellow. He is the author of Disciplining Love: Austen and the Modern Man (The Ohio State University Press, 2007) and editor of Jane Austen and Masculinity (Bucknell University Press, 2017) and Jane Austen and Critical Theory (Routledge, 2021). He is co-editing the first scholarly edition of William Delisle Hay's The Doom of the Great City (1880).

Product details

• Authors: Michael Kramp, Kramp Michael
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 27.06.2025
• EAN: 9781032232980
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3223298-0
• No. of pages: 262
• Series: Among the Victorians and Modernists
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Sociology, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary theory, Gender studies: men and boys, Gender Studies: Men, Victorian Literature