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

Author: Sarah S G Frantz; Katharina Rennhak
Publisher: Lanham : Lexington Books, ©2010.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Genre/Form: Aufsatzsammlung
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Sarah S G Frantz; Katharina Rennhak
ISBN: 9780739133651 0739133659 9780739133675 0739133675 0739133667 9780739133668
OCLC Number: 445480470
Description: vi, 273 p. ; 24 cm.
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.
Responsibility: edited by Sarah S.G. Frantz and Katharina Rennhak.

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The essays are clearly written, with theoretical terms defined well enough that less experienced readers will not be lost... Recommended. -- M.E. Burstein CHOICE, June 2010

 
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