Sarah Ailwood

Jane Austen's Men

Rewriting Masculinity in the Romantic Era

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Produktbeschreibung

Jane Austen's Men is among the first full-length works to explore Austen's male protagonists as textual constructions of masculinity. This book illuminates in new ways Jane Austen's ambitions for the novel, and the political power of the courtship romance genre in the Romantic era.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 166
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 395g
• ISBN-13: 9780367321345
• ISBN-10: 0367321343
• Artikelnr.: 57603085

Autorenporträt

Sarah Ailwood is Assistant Professor at the University of Canberra. She completed her PhD on Jane Austen and masculinity at the University of Wollongong, and has published essays and articles on Austen's men. She co-edited Katherine Mansfield and Literary Influence (EUP, 2015) and has wide research interests in women's writing, particularly historical and contemporary life narrative and legal experience.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Rewriting Masculinity in the Romantic Era
Chapter One
The men of 'real Life': Educating the Reader in Sense and Sensibility
Chapter Two
"I will prove myself a man": Northanger Abbey
Chapter Three
'A man violently in love': Pride and Prejudice
Chapter Four
"You will make him everything": Masculine Redemption in Mansfield Park
Chapter Five
"A disgrace to the name of man": Emma, the National Tale and the Historical
Novel
Chapter Six
'Feelings glad to burst their usual restraints': Persuasion
Conclusion: Sanditon, Unfinished Work and New Directions