Jane Austen's Men
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Jane Austen's Men

Rewriting Masculinity in the Romantic Era

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Jane Austen's Men

Rewriting Masculinity in the Romantic Era

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This book illuminates Jane Austen's exploration of masculinity through the courtship romance genre in the socially, politically and culturally turbulent Romantic era. Austen scrutinises, satirises, censures and ultimately rewrites dominant modes of masculinity through the courtship romance plot between her heroines and male protagonists. This book reveals that Austen pioneers and celebrates a new vision of masculinity that could complement the Romantic desire for agency, individualism and selfhood embodied in her heroines. Rewriting desirable masculinity as an internalised, psychologically complex and authentic gender identity ā€“ a model of manhood that drives the ongoing appeal and cultural power of her men in the twenty-first century ā€“ Austen explores both the challenges and the opportunities for male selfhood, romantic love and feminine agency.

Jane Austen's Men is among the first full-length works to explore Austen's male protagonists as textual constructions of masculinity. Sarah Ailwood reveals the depth of Austen's engagement with her predecessors and contemporaries, including Mary Wollstonecraft, Jane West and Jane Porter, on critical questions of masculinity and its relationship to femininity and narrative form. 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.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2019
ISBN
9781000084788
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Collections
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication
  7. Table of Contents
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Texts and Sources
  10. Introduction: Rewriting Masculinity in the Romantic Era
  11. 1 The Men of ā€˜real Lifeā€™: Educating the Reader in Sense and Sensibility
  12. 2 ā€˜I will prove myself a manā€™: Northanger Abbey
  13. 3 ā€˜A man violently in loveā€™: Pride and Prejudice
  14. 4 ā€˜You will make him everythingā€™: Redeeming Masculinity in Mansfield Park
  15. 5 ā€˜A disgrace to the name of manā€™: Emma, the National Tale and the Historical Novel
  16. 6 ā€˜Feelings glad to burst their usual restraintsā€™: Persuasion
  17. Conclusion: Sanditon, Unfinished Work and New Directions
  18. Notes
  19. Index