Jane Austen and Masculinity

by Michael Kramp (Editor), Bryce Campbell (Contribution by), Natasha Duquette (Contribution by), Jan Fergus (Contribution by), Miriam Hart (Contribution by)

Overview

Jane Austen and Masculinity is an eclectic collection of contemporary scholarship addressing the representation of men and masculinity in the fiction and popular adaptations of Austen. This anthology includes work by a variety of esteemed and emergent Austen scholars from around the world who engage in a dialogue on critical questions surrounding her fictional treatment of men and masculinity, such as historical (post-French Revolutionary) changes in social expectations for men and women, brothers and fathers, male lovers, soldiers and the military, queer and alternative sexualities, violence, and male devotees of Austen. The collection addresses Austen’s fiction, including her juvenilia, as well as the ongoing popular appeal of her work and the enduring Austen vogue. The work in this anthology builds on established critical discourses in Austen scholarship as well as important conversations in Masculinity Studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781611488678
Publisher:	University Press Copublishing Division
Publication date:	12/22/2017
Series:	Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	318
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Michael Kramp is associate professor of English at Lehigh University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Austen and Masculinity by Michael Kramp
Part I: Men, Domesticity, and the Family
Chapter 1: Sketches of Men’s Kvetches: Domestic Masculinities in Emma and Persuasion
by Jane Fergus
Chapter 2: Failures of the Patriarchy: Fathers as Role Models in Jane Austen by Kit Kincade
Chapter 3: The Paradox of Masculine Agency in Jane Austen’s Early Works by Joanne Wilkes
Part 11: 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 Sensibilityby Megan Woodworth
Chapter 5: The Sensibility of Captain Benwick in Literary and Historical Context by Natasha Duquette
Chapter 6: ’Till he began to stagger her’: Melancholia and Literary Men by Enit K. Steiner
Part III: Male Sexualities and Desires
Chapter 7: Empire of the Sensible: Disciplining Love and the 1990’s Austen Craze by Carol Siegel and Bryce Campbell
Chapter 8: Austen’s Dandies: Frank Churchill and Henry Crawford Play Dress Up by Zachary Snider
Part IV: The Men of Austen’s Afterlives
Chapter 9: Waltzing with Wellington, Biting with Byron: Heroes in Austen’s Tribute Texts by Lisa Hopkins
Chapter 10: ‘What a man should be’: (Re-)Imaginign Austenian Masculinity in Film and YouTube Fanvids by R.A. White
Chapter 11: Virginia Woolf & the Gentlemen Janeites, or the Origins of Modern Austen Criticism, 1870-1929 by Jason Solinger
Part V: Film Music and Masculinity
Chapter 12: Performing to Strangers: Masculinity, Adaptation, and Music in Pride and Prejudiceby Gayle Magee
Chapter 13: Austen, Music, and Manhood by Linda Zionkowski and Miriam Hart
Bibliography
Index
About the Contributors

Editorial Reviews

Kramp’s introduction to this new book provides a comprehensive, helpful overview both of the emergence of masculinity studies as a field and also of existing scholarship on Austen’s depictions of men.

European Romantic Review

The essays brought together here provide a suitably kaleidoscopic view of maleness, both in Austen’s own works and in the reformulations and extensions of those works critically, cinematically, and fictionally.. .. As a whole.. . this book provides thoughtful variety in its views of men and masculinity associated with Austen’s novels, all the richer for its broader considerations of contexts and aftereffects of Austen’s men.

Eighteenth Century Intelligencer

Jane Austen and Masculinity offers us new ways to understand the deep significance and complex meanings of Austen’s men. We’ve spent so much energy assessing Mr. Darcy’s hot-or-not-ness that we’ve rarely sought to understand how he fits into a more extensive consideration of Austenian manhood. This book’s essays consider a wide range of subjects, from heroes and fathers, to whiners and melancholics, to duels and music. Its contents draw us into historical and contemporary debates about Austen, gender, and masculinity. Editor Michael Kramp has given us a timely, compelling book on a surprisingly neglected subject.” —Devoney Looser, author of The Making of Jane Austen
 

author of The Making of Jane Austen - Devoney Looser

The essays brought together here provide a suitably kaleidoscopic view of maleness, both in Austen’s own works and in the reformulations and extensions of those works critically, cinematically, and fictionally. . . . As a whole . . . this book provides thoughtful variety in its views of men and masculinity associated with Austen’s novels, all the richer for its broader considerations of contexts and aftereffects of Austen’s men.

Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer

Jane Austen and Masculinity is a welcome addition to the significant body of work on Austen and gender.

Eighteenth-Century Fiction