Jane Austen's Men: Rewriting Masculinity in the Romantic Era

ISBN-13: 9781032240589 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 166 str.

Sarah Ailwood

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.