Women constructing men
Subtitle: female novelists and their male characters, 1750-2000
By: edited by Sarah S. G. Frantz and Katharina Rennhak.
Contributors: Frantz, Sarah S. G.; Rennhak, Katharina.
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780739133651; 9780739133675
Subjects: 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
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 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.