Women constructing men : female novelists and their male characters, 1750-2000 / edited by Sarah S.G. Frantz and Katharina Rennhak.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Frantz, Sarah S. G.

Rennhak, Katharina.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.

English fiction.

American fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.

American fiction.

Characters and characteristics in literature.

Men in literature.

Masculinity in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (278 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Female novelists and their male characters, 1750-2000: an introduction / Sarah S.G. Frantz and Katharina Rennhak

Happy men?: mid-eighteenth-century women writers and ideal masculinity / Shawn Lisa Maurer

Male privilege in Frances Burney's The wanderer / George E. Haggerty

The medium makes the man: Anne Plumptre's Something new and The history of myself and my friend / Katharina Rennhak

"Too much in the common novel style": reforming masculinities in Jane Austen's Sense and sensibility / Sarah Ailwood

Constructing masculine narrative: Charlotte Brontë's The professor / Sara Pearson

The lifted veil: George Eliot's experiment with first-person narrative / Frederick Burwick

Assimilating the "pretty youngster": George Eliot's eroticized men on the borderlines of morality, religion, race, and nation / Rainer Emig

"His spirituality or his manliness": Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's (re)constructions of Christian masculinity / Roxanne Harde

The differential construction of masculinity in the writings of Virginia Woolf / Virginia Richter

Knitting paradise lost: masculinity and domesticity in the novels of Carol Shields / Ellen McWilliams

Looking (im)properly: women objectifying men's bodies in contemporary Australian women's fiction / Katherine Bode

Unmaking the self-made man: Louise Erdrich's fictional exploration of masculinity / Angela Laflen

"I've tried my entire life to be a good man": Suzanne Brockmann's Sam Starrett, ideal romance hero / Sarah S.G. Frantz.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-280-65908-4

9786613636010

0-7391-3367-5

OCLC:

727649188