Jane Austen and masculinity / edited by Michael Kramp.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kramp, Michael, editor.

Series:

Transits (Bucknell University)

Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Austen, Jane, 1775-1817--Criticism and interpretation.

Austen, Jane.

Austen, Jane, 1775-1817--Characters--Men.

Masculinity in literature.

Men in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Lewisburg, [Pennsylvania] : Bucknell University Press, 2018.

Summary:

Jane Austen and Masculinity is an eclectic collection of contemporary scholarship addressing the representation of men and masculinity in the fiction and popular adaptations of Austen. This anthology includes work by a variety of esteemed and emergent Austen scholars from around the world who engage in a dialogue on critical questions surrounding her fictional treatment of men and masculinity, such as historical (post-French Revolutionary) changes in social expectations for men and women, brothers and fathers, male lovers, soldiers and the military, queer and alternative sexualities, violence, and male devotees of Austen. The collection addresses Austen's fiction, including her juvenilia, as well as the ongoing popular appeal of her work and the enduring Austen vogue. The work in this anthology builds on established critical discourses in Austen scholarship as well as important conversations in Masculinity Studies.

Contents:

Introduction: Austen and masculinity / by Michael Kramp

Men, domesticity, and the family. Sketches of men's kvetches: domestic masculinities in Emma and Persuasion / by Jane Fergus

Failures of the patriarchy: fathers as role models in Jane Austen / by Kit Kincade

The paradox of masculine agency in Jane Austen's early works / by Joanne Wilkes

Masculinity, honor, and feeling. "I could meet him in no other way": dueling, the culture of honor, and modern masculinity in Sense and sensibility / by Megan Woodworth

The sensibility of Captain Benwick in literary and historical context / by Natasha Duquette

"Till he began to stagger her": melancholia and literary men / by Enit K. Steiner

Male sexualities and desires. Empire of the sensible: disciplining love and the 1990's Austen craze / by Carol Siegel and Bryce Campbell

Austen's dandies: Frank Churchill and Henry Crawford play dress up / by Zachary Snider

The men of Austen's afterlives. Waltzing with Wellington, biting with Byron: heroes in Austen's tribute texts / by Lisa Hopkins

"What a man should be": (re-)imaginig Austenian masculinity in film and YouTube fanvids / by R.A. White

Virginia Woolf & the gentlemen Janeites, or the origins of modern Austen criticism, 1870-1929 / by Jason Solinger

Film music and masculinity. Performing to strangers: masculinity, adaptation, and music in Pride and prejudice / by Gayle Magee

Austen, music, and manhood / by Linda Zionkowski and Miriam Hart.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61148-867-2