Jane Austen and Masculinity

MICHAEL KRAMP is a professor of English at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He is the author of Patriarchy’s Creative Resilience: Late-Victorian Speculative Fiction and Disciplining Love: Austen and the Modern Man and the editor of Jane Austen and Critical Theory.

List of Tables  
 
Acknowledgments      
 
Introduction: Austen and Masculinity           
Michael Kramp
 
Abbreviations 
 
P A R T I :  M E N , D O M E S T I C I T Y , A N D T H E F A M I L Y
1          Sketches of Men’s Kvetches: Domestic Masculinities in Emma and Persuasion      
Jan Fergus
2          Failures of the Patriarchy: Fathers as Role Models in Jane Austen   
Kit Kincade
3          The Paradox of Masculine Agency in Jane Austen’s Early Works     
Joanne Wilkes
 
P A R T  I I :  M A S C U L I N I T Y ,  H O N O R ,  A N D  F E E L I N G
4          “I could meet him in no other way”: Dueling, the Culture of Honor, and Modern Masculinity in Sense and Sensibility
Megan A. Woodworth
5          The Sensibility of Captain Benwick in Literary and Historical Context          
Natasha Duquette
6          “Till he began to stagger her”: Literary Men and Melancholia         
Enit K. Steiner
 
P A R T  I I I :  M A L E  S E X U A L I T I E S  A N D  D E S I R E S
7          Empire of the Sensible: Disciplining Love and the 1990’s Austen Craze      
Carol Siegel and Bryce Campbell
8          Austen’s Dandies: Frank Churchill and Henry Crawford Play Dress Up
Zachary Snider
 
P A R T  I V :  T H E  M E N  O F  A U S T E N ’ S  A F T E R L I V E S
9          Waltzing with Wellington, Biting with Byron: Heroes in Austen’s Tribute Texts
Lisa Hopkins
10        “What a man should be”: (Re-)Imagining Austenian Masculinity in Film and YouTube Fanvids
Rebecca White
11        Virginia Woolf and the Gentlemen Janeites, or the Origins of Modern Austen Criticism, 1870–1929
Jason Solinger
 
P A R T V :  F I L M M U S I C A N D M A S C U L I N I T Y
12        Performing to Strangers: Masculinity, Adaptation, and Music in Pride and Prejudice (1995)
Gayle Magee
13        Austen, Music, and Manhood
Linda Zionkowski and Miriam Hart
 
Bibliography
 
Index
 
About the Contributors