Women Writing Men (eBook, PDF)

1689 to 1869
Redaktion: Parsons, Joanne Ella; Heholt, Ruth

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores how women writers create and question men and masculinity. It will be of interest to academics, researchers, and advanced students of Literature, Gender Studies, Critical Theory and Cultural Studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 164
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000598223
• Artikelnr.: 63616518

Autorenporträt

Joanne Ella Parsons is Lecturer at Falmouth University, UK, and Advanced Studies in England (a branch college of Franklin and Marshall, USA). Ruth Heholt is Senior Lecturer of Dark Economies and Gothic Literature at Falmouth University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. "[T]hat Where One was, There was the Other": Dreams of
Queer Stories in Aphra Behn's The History of the Nun, or, The Fair
Vow-Breaker (1689) 3. "A Fit Companion for a Woman of Sense": Jane West's
Re-Education of Masculine Norms in Letters Addressed to a Young Man (1802)
and The Infidel Father (1802) 4. Edgeworth, Owenson, and the Masculine
Border 5. Reading the Absence: The Shaping of Male Characters and their
Crises in the Void 6. A Woman's Thoughts about Men: Malthus and
Middle-Class Masculinity in Dinah Mulock Craik's John Halifax, Gentleman
7. George Eliot Writing the Drunken Husband: "Janet's Repentance" as a
study of Male Violence and Co-Dependence 8. Sketching the New Man Out:
Ellen Wood's Exploration of Victorian Masculinity 9. Women Writing Creole
Masculinity