Women constructing men : female novelists and their male characters, 1750-2000 / / edited by Sarah S.G. Frantz and Katharina Rennhak.
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Year of Publication: | 2010 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | vi, 273 p. |
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Table of 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 Bronte'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.