Constructions of masculinity in British literature from the middle ages to the present
An in-depth analysis into the construction of male identity as well as a unique and comprehensive historical overview of how masculinity has been constructed in British literature from the Middle Ages to the present. This book is an important contribution to the emerging field of masculinity studies. STEFAN HORLACHER Professor of English Literature and Chair of the English Department at Dresden University of Technology, Germany. INDICE: PART I: THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKMasculinity, Sexual Identity, and the Importance of Literature;S.Horlacher The Construction of the Construction ofMasculinities;H.BrodOn Reading Men, Law, and Gender: Legal Regulation and theNew Politics of Masculinity;R.CollierMasculinity Inside Out: The BiopoliticalLessons of Transgender and Intersex Studies;K.FloydPART II: LITERATURE FROM THE MIDDLE AGES TO THE NINETEENTH CENTURY Robin, Gamelynand Medieval Masculine Escapism;A.J.Johnston Masculinity and Chivalric Prowess in Thomas Malory'sMorte D'arthur;C.Houswitschka Shakespeare's Rescripting of Masculinity inAs You Like It;M.Bracher 'Merit, Justice, Gratitude, Duty, Fidelity': Images of Masculinity in Autobiographies of Early Modern English Gentlewomen and Aristocrats;G.Rippl The 'Crisis' of Masculinity in Seventeenth-century England;M.Kimmel Augustan Manliness and its Anxieties: Shaftesbury and Swift;I.Karremann The Male Gaze vs. Sexual Ventriloquism: Masculinities in Daniel Defoe's Novels;L.Volkmann Sentimental Masculinity: Henry Mackenzie'sThe Man of Feeling(1771);R.EmigConcepts of Masculinity in Victorian Crime, Detective, and Gothic Fiction;R.SchneiderThe Props of Masculinity in Victorian Adventure Fiction;S.Scholz&N.DropmannRe-ReadingJude the Obscure:Patriarchal Laws, the Symbolic Order, and the Illusion of a Metaphysics of Presence;S.Horlacher PART III: TWENTIETH AND TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY LITERATUREA Man Could Stand Up: Masculinities and the Great War;S.MergenthalFrom Working Class Loser Boy to Male Role Model: The Rise of the Angry Young Man;S.Müller 'Filiarchy' and the Male Principle in the Early Work ofIan McEwan;F.HosseiniBaffled Hopes and Bad Habits: Gay Men and Romance in Novels by E. M. Forster, Tom Wakefield, and Alan Hollinghurst;B.Schoene Cultural Hybridity and Fluid Masculinities in the Post Colonial Metropolis: Individualized Gender Identities in Hanif Kureishi'sThe Buddha of SuburbiaandThe Black Album;M.Winkgens Lad Trouble: The Crisis of Masculinity in the Fiction of Nick Hornby, John O'Farrell, and Tim Lott;A.Ochsner Concepts of Masculinity in Contemporary Black British Fiction: Zadie Smith, Diran Adebayo, and Jackie Kay