Jane Austen and Masculinity

Michael Kramp (Ed.)

2017
318 pages
ISBN 9781611488661
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Jane Austen and Masculinity is an eclectic collection of contemporary scholarship addressing the representation of men and masculinity in the fiction and popular adaptations of Austen. This anthology includes work by a variety of esteemed and emergent Austen scholars from around the world who engage in a dialogue on critical questions surrounding her fictional treatment of men and masculinity, such as historical (post-French Revolutionary) changes in social expectations for men and women, brothers and fathers, male lovers, soldiers and the military, queer and alternative sexualities, violence, and male devotees of Austen. The collection addresses Austen's fiction, including her juvenilia, as well as the ongoing popular appeal of her work and the enduring Austen vogue. The work in this anthology builds on established critical discourses in Austen scholarship as well as important conversations in Masculinity Studies.

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Reviews
"Jane Austen and Masculinity is a welcome addition to the significant body of work on Austen and gender...The collected essays therefore exhibit a self-conscious awareness of disciplinary developments, and the analytical frameworks and tools therein reflect those of influential predecessors." - Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol. 32, no. 2.

"[Jane Austen and Masculinity] provides a comprehensive, helpful overview both of the emergence of masculinity studies as a field and also of existing scholarship on Austen's depictions of men." - European Romantic Review, 2019

"The essays brought together here provide a suitably kaleidoscopic view of maleness, both in Austen's own works and in the reformulations and extensions of those works critically, cinematically, and fictionally. . . . As a whole. . . this book provides thoughtful variety in its views of men and masculinity associated with Austen's novels, all the richer for its broader considerations of contexts and aftereffects of Austen's men." - Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer

"Jane Austen and Masculinity offers us new ways to understand the deep significance and complex meanings of Austen's men. We've spent so much energy assessing Mr. Darcy's hot-or-not-ness that we've rarely sought to understand how he fits into a more extensive consideration of Austenian manhood. This book's essays consider a wide range of subjects, from heroes and fathers, to whiners and melancholics, to duels and music. Its contents draw us into historical and contemporary debates about Austen, gender, and masculinity. Editor Michael Kramp has given us a timely, compelling book on a surprisingly neglected subject." - Devoney Looser, author of Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës

About the editor:

Michael Kramp is associate professor of English at Lehigh University. He is the author of Disciplining Love: Austen and the Modern Man (2007) and articles on Deleuze, Foucault, Pater, Dickens, and Lawrence, among others. He has more recently introduced and edited a special issue of Rhizomes focused on Deleuze and photography, and published a series of articles on nineteenth-century photography, including pieces on the work of Hawarden, Lady Clementina, Henry Fox Talbot, and Amy Levy's The Romance of a Shop.

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