Women constructing men
Subtitle: female novelists and their male characters, 1750-2000
By: edited by Sarah S.G. Frantz and Katharina Rennhak
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9780739133651; 9780739133675
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Female novelists and their male characters, 1750-2000: an introduction / Sarah S.G. Frantz and Katharina Rennhak; title: Happy men?: mid-eighteenth-century women writers and ideal masculinity / Shawn Lisa Maurer; title: Male privilege in Frances Burney's The wanderer / George E. Haggerty; title: The medium makes the man: Anne Plumptre's Something new and The history of myself and my friend / Katharina Rennhak; title: "Too much in the common novel style": reforming masculinities in Jane Austen's Sense and sensibility / Sarah Ailwood; title: Constructing masculine narrative: Charlotte Brontë's The professor / Sara Pearson; title: The lifted veil: George Eliot's experiment with first-person narrative / Frederick Burwick; title: Assimilating the "pretty youngster": George Eliot's eroticized men on the borderlines of morality, religion, race, and nation / Rainer Emig; title: "His spirituality or his manliness": Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's (re)constructions of Christian masculinity / Roxanne Harde; title: The differential construction of masculinity in the writings of Virginia Woolf / Virginia Richter; title: Knitting paradise lost: masculinity and domesticity in the novels of Carol Shields / Ellen McWilliams; title: Looking (im)properly: women objectifying men's bodies in contemporary Australian women's fiction / Katherine Bode; title: Unmaking the self-made man: Louise Erdrich's fictional exploration of masculinity / Angela Laflen; title: "I've tried my entire life to be a good man": Suzanne Brockmann's Sam Starrett, ideal romance hero / Sarah S.G. Frantz.