Configuring Masculinity in Theory and Literary PracticeConfiguring Masculinity in Theory and Literary Practice combines a critical survey of the most important concepts in Masculinity Studies with a historical overview of how masculinity has been constructed within British Literature and a special focus on developments in the 20th and 21st centuries. |
Contents
Configuring Masculinity | 1 |
Concepts of Masculinity and Masculinity Studies | 11 |
The Field of Knowledge | 39 |
Legal Regulation
and the New Politics of Masculinity | 53 |
Masculinity in Thomas Malorys Morte Darthur | 75 |
Shakespeares Rescripting of Masculinity in As You Like It | 95 |
Henry Mackenzies
The Man of Feeling 1771 | 127 |
Jude Fawleys Construction
of Masculinity in Thomas Hardys Jude the Obscure | 141 |
The Rise of the WorkingClass Hero | 169 |
Filiarchy and Masculinity in the Early Novels of
Ian McEwan | 191 |
What Is a Man? or the Representation of Masculinity
in Hanif Kureishis Short Fiction | 217 |
Male Characters in
Caryl Phillips Fiction | 251 |
Interrogating Fatherhood in Will Selfs
The Book of Dave | 271 |
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