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Jane Austen and Masculinity.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Bucknell University Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (319 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781611488678
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Jane Austen and MasculinityDDC classification:
  • 823/.7
LOC classification:
  • PR4038.M36 .J36 2018
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF TABLES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION: Austen and Masculinity -- ABBREVIATIONS -- Part I. MEN, DOMESTICITY, AND THE FAMILY -- Chapter 1. SKETCHES OF MEN'S KVETCHES: Domestic Masculinities in Emma and Persuasion -- Chapter 2. FAILURES OF THE PATRIARCHY: Fathers as Role Models in Jane Austen -- Chapter 3. THE PARADOX OF MASCULINE AGENCY IN JANE AUSTEN'S EARLY WORKS -- Part II. MASCULINITY, HONOR, AND FEELING -- Chapter 4. "I COULD MEET HIM IN NO OTHER WAY": Dueling, the Culture of Honor, and Modern Masculinity in Sense and Sensibility -- Chapter 5. THE SENSIBILITY OF CAPTAIN BENWICK IN LITERARY AND HISTORICAL CONTEXT -- Chapter 6. "TILL HE BEGAN TO STAGGER HER": Literary Men and Melancholia -- Part III. MALE SEXUALITIES AND DESIRES -- Chapter 7. EMPIRE OF THE SENSIBLE: Disciplining Love and the 1990s Austen Craze -- Chapter 8. AUSTEN'S DANDIES: Frank Churchill and Henry Crawford Play Dress Up -- Part IV. THE MEN OF AUSTEN'S AFTERLIVES -- Chapter 9. WALTZING WITH WELLINGTON, BITING WITH BYRON: Heroes in Austen Tribute Texts -- Chapter 10. "WHAT A MAN SHOULD BE": (Re-)Imagining Austenian Masculinity in Film and YouTube Fanvids -- Chapter 11. VIRGINIA WOOLF AND THE GENTLEMEN JANEITES, OR THE ORIGINS OF MODERN AUSTEN CRITICISM, 1870-1929 -- Part V. FILM MUSIC AND MASCULINITY -- Chapter 12. PERFORMING TO STRANGERS: Masculinity, Adaptation, and Music in Pride and Prejudice (1995) -- Chapter 13. AUSTEN, MUSIC, AND MANHOOD -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS.
Summary: Jane Austen and Masculinity provides a diverse selection of critical essays on representations of men and masculinity in Austen's work. This anthology will attract interest from scholars of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature as well as gender studies scholars who are interested in the widening scope of masculinity studies.
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Intro -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF TABLES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION: Austen and Masculinity -- ABBREVIATIONS -- Part I. MEN, DOMESTICITY, AND THE FAMILY -- Chapter 1. SKETCHES OF MEN'S KVETCHES: Domestic Masculinities in Emma and Persuasion -- Chapter 2. FAILURES OF THE PATRIARCHY: Fathers as Role Models in Jane Austen -- Chapter 3. THE PARADOX OF MASCULINE AGENCY IN JANE AUSTEN'S EARLY WORKS -- Part II. MASCULINITY, HONOR, AND FEELING -- Chapter 4. "I COULD MEET HIM IN NO OTHER WAY": Dueling, the Culture of Honor, and Modern Masculinity in Sense and Sensibility -- Chapter 5. THE SENSIBILITY OF CAPTAIN BENWICK IN LITERARY AND HISTORICAL CONTEXT -- Chapter 6. "TILL HE BEGAN TO STAGGER HER": Literary Men and Melancholia -- Part III. MALE SEXUALITIES AND DESIRES -- Chapter 7. EMPIRE OF THE SENSIBLE: Disciplining Love and the 1990s Austen Craze -- Chapter 8. AUSTEN'S DANDIES: Frank Churchill and Henry Crawford Play Dress Up -- Part IV. THE MEN OF AUSTEN'S AFTERLIVES -- Chapter 9. WALTZING WITH WELLINGTON, BITING WITH BYRON: Heroes in Austen Tribute Texts -- Chapter 10. "WHAT A MAN SHOULD BE": (Re-)Imagining Austenian Masculinity in Film and YouTube Fanvids -- Chapter 11. VIRGINIA WOOLF AND THE GENTLEMEN JANEITES, OR THE ORIGINS OF MODERN AUSTEN CRITICISM, 1870-1929 -- Part V. FILM MUSIC AND MASCULINITY -- Chapter 12. PERFORMING TO STRANGERS: Masculinity, Adaptation, and Music in Pride and Prejudice (1995) -- Chapter 13. AUSTEN, MUSIC, AND MANHOOD -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS.

Jane Austen and Masculinity provides a diverse selection of critical essays on representations of men and masculinity in Austen's work. This anthology will attract interest from scholars of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature as well as gender studies scholars who are interested in the widening scope of masculinity studies.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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