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OverviewAn 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: S. HorlacherPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.490kg ISBN: 9780230115095ISBN 10: 0230115098 Pages: 278 Publication Date: 08 December 2011 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsTable of Contents PART I: THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK Charting the Field of Masculinity Studies: Towards a Literary History of Masculinities; Prof. Dr. S.Horlacher The Construction of the Construction of Masculinities; Prof. Dr. H.Brod Masculinity Inside Out: The Biopolitical Lessons of Transgender and Intersex Studies; Prof. Dr. K.Floyd PART II: LITERATURE FROM THE MIDDLE AGES TO THE 19TH-CENTURY Wrestling in the Moonlight: The Politics of Masculinity in the Middle English Popular Romance Gamelyn; Prof. Dr. A.J.Johnston 'Merit, Justice, Gratitude, Duty, Fidelity': Images of Masculinity in Autobiographies of Early Modern English Gentlewomen and Aristocrats; Prof. Dr. G.Rippl The 'Crisis' of Masculinity in Seventeenth-Century England; Prof. Dr. M.Kimmel Manliness and Its Anxieties: Shaftesbury and Swift; Dr. I.K.Augustan Fortified Masculinity: Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe as a Literary Emblem of Western Male Identity; Prof. Dr. L.Volkmann The Invisible Center: Conceptions of Masculinity in Victorian Fiction - Realist, Crime, Detective and Gothic; Prof. Dr. R.Schneider The Props of Masculinity in Late Victorian Adventure Fiction; Prof. Dr. S.Scholz & N.Dropmann, M.A. PART III: 20TH- AND 21ST-CENTURY LITERATURE A Man Could Stand Up: Masculinities and the Great War; Prof. Dr. S.Mergenthal Baffled Hopes and Bad Habits: Men, Marriage and Conformity in Queer Theory and Gay Representation; Prof. Dr. B.Schoene Cultural Hybridity and Fluid Masculinities in the Postcolonial Metropolis: Individualized Gender Identities in Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia and The Black Album; Prof. Dr. M.Winkgens Who Is That Man? Lad Trouble in High Fidelity, The Best a Man Can Get and White City Blue; Dr. A.Ochsner List of Contributors IndexReviews'[This book] undertakes an admirable exploration of the cultural construction of masculinity and masculinities as a comprehensive historical overview in British literature and culture. A thorough, cogent, and brilliantly designed collection of essays combining nuanced and subtle close readings with a relevant and varied theoretical framework.' - Therese Steffen, University of Basel and author of Crossing Color: Transcultural Space and Place in Rita Dove's Poetry, Fiction, Drama 'Horlacher's volume sets a new standard for the historical study of masculinities in British literature. Theoretically rich, historically nuanced, and covering more than six centuries, the essays in this volume illuminate the continuities and contradictions, disruptions and recuperations that characterize changing historical conceptions of the masculine. An essential volume that will set the benchmark for research in masculinity studies for years to come.' - Christopher Breu, Illinois State University and author of Hard-Boiled Masculinities This volume is state of the art on its subject. . . . no book has the breadth and contemporaneity that this one does. Summing Up: Recommended. --CHOICE '[This book] undertakes an admirable exploration of the cultural construction of masculinity and masculinities as a comprehensive historical overview in British literature and culture. A thorough, cogent, and brilliantly designed collection of essays combining nuanced and subtle close readings with a relevant and varied theoretical framework.' - Therese Steffen, University of Basel and author of Crossing Color: Transcultural Space and Place in Rita Dove's Poetry, Fiction, Drama <br>'Horlacher's volume sets a new standard for the historical study of masculinities in British literature. Theoretically rich, historically nuanced, and covering more than six centuries, the essays in this volume illuminate the continuities and contradictions, disruptions and recuperations that characterize changing historical conceptions of the masculine. An essential volume that will set the benchmark for research in masculinity studies for years to come.' - Christopher Breu, Illinois State University and Author InformationSTEFAN HORLACHER Professor of English Literature and Chair of the English Department at Dresden University of Technology, Germany. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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