Disciplining love : Austen and the modern man

Disciplining love : Austen and the modern man / Michael Kramp.

"The years following the French Revolution fostered a period of cultural instability in England. This cultural instability led to the dynamic developments in sexual identity and gender relationships that we can observe in the novels of Jane Austen. While numerous scholars have intelligently tak...

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Main Author: Kramp, Michael (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2007]
Subjects:
Austen, Jane, > 1775-1817 > Criticism and interpretation.
Austen, Jane, > 1775-1817 > Characters > Men.
Austen, Jane, > 1775-1817 > Influence.
Austen, Jane, > 1775-1817
Austen, Jane, > (1775-1817) > Critique et interprétation.
Austen, Jane, > (1775-1817) > Personnages.
Austen, Jane.
Masculinity in literature.
Men in literature.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Masculinity in literature
Men in literature
Männlichkeit > Motiv
Masculinité (psychologie) > Dans la littérature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Love, social/sexual organization, and Austen
  • The emergence of the modern nation and the development of the modern man
  • Rationalizing the anxieties of Austen's juvenilia: Henry Tilney's composite masculinity
  • Austen's sensitive men: Willoughby, Brandon, and the regulation of sensation
  • Austen's tradesmen: improving masculinity in Pride and prejudice
  • Exposing Burkean masculinity, or Edmund confronts modernity
  • Remaking English manhood, or accepting modernity: Knightley's fused finitude
  • Imagining malleable masculinity and radical nomadism in Persuasion.

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