| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 273 pages) |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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Characters and characteristics in literature.
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Men in literature.
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Masculinity in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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American fiction -- Women authors.
(OCoLC)fst00807099
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Characters and characteristics in literature. (OCoLC)fst00852295
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English fiction -- Women authors.
(OCoLC)fst00910866
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Masculinity in literature. (OCoLC)fst01011040
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Men in literature. (OCoLC)fst01016054
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Frauenroman.
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Mann (Motiv)
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Männlichkeit (Motiv)
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Englisch.
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| Chronological Term |
Geschichte 1750-2000
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Added Author |
Frantz, Sarah S. G.
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Rennhak, Katharina.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Women constructing men. Lanham : Lexington Books, ©2010 9780739133651 (DLC) 2009039378 (OCoLC)445480470 |
| ISBN |
9780739133675 (electronic bk.) |
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0739133675 (electronic bk.) |
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