Women Constructing Men

Female Novelists and Their Male Characters, 1750 - 2000
Herausgeber: Frantz, Sarah S. G.; Rennhak, Katharina

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Produktbeschreibung

Female novelists have always invested as much narrative energy in constructing their male characters as in envisioning their female. The collected articles in

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 609g
• ISBN-13: 9780739133651
• ISBN-10: 0739133659
• Artikelnr.: 28036943

Autorenporträt

Sarah S. G. Frantz is assistant professor of English at Fayetteville State University. Katharina Rennhak is assistant professor of English at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich.

Inhaltsangabe

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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