Jane Austen's men : rewriting masculinity in the romantic era /
This book illuminates Jane Austen's exploration of masculinity through the courtship romance genre in the socially, politically and culturally turbulent Romantic era. Austen scrutinizes, satirises, censures and ultimately rewrites dominant modes of masculinity through the courtship romance plot...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
[2020]
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| Series: | Routledge studies in romanticism ;
30. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.