Women constructing men female novelists and their male characters, 1750-2000 / edited by Sarah S.G. Frantz and Katharina Rennhak.
| Other author | Frantz, Sarah S. G. |
| Other author | Rennhak, Katharina. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Lanham : Lexington Books, |
| Description | vi, 273 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2009039378 |
| ISBN | 9780739133651 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0739133659 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780739133675 (electronic) |
| ISBN | 0739133675 (electronic) |
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