Women constructing men : female novelists and their male characters, 1750-2000 /

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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 n...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Frantz, Sarah S. G., Rennhak, Katharina
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham : Lexington Books, c2010.
Temas:
Geschichte 1750-2000.
English fiction > Women authors > History and criticism.
American fiction > Women authors > History and criticism.
Characters and characteristics in literature.
Men in literature.
Masculinity in literature.
Hommes dans la littérature.
Masculinité dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
American fiction > Women authors.
English fiction > Women authors.
Frauenroman
Mann > Motiv
Männlichkeit > Motiv
Englisch.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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