Women Writing Men

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.

Autorentext

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.

Zusammenfassung
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.

Inhalt

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