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Women Constructing Men : Female Novelists and Their Male Characters, 1750-2000.
Female novelists have always invested as much narrative energy in constructing their male characters--heroes and villains--as in envisioning their female protagonists, but this fact has received very little scholarly attention to date. In Women Constructing Men, scholars from Australia, Canada, Germ...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham :
Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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 NarrativeChapter 8 Assimilating the "pretty youngster": George Eliot's Eroticized Men on the Borderlines of Morality, Religion, Race, an; 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 FictionChapter 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; Bibliography; About the Contributors.