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Jane Austen's Men - Rewriting Masculinity in the Romantic Era (Paperback)
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Jane Austen's Men - Rewriting Masculinity in the Romantic Era (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Romanticism
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This book illuminates Jane Austen's exploration of masculinity
through the courtship romance genre in the socially, politically
and culturally turbulent Romantic era. Austen scrutinises,
satirises, censures and ultimately rewrites dominant modes of
masculinity through the courtship romance plot between her heroines
and male protagonists. This book reveals that Austen pioneers and
celebrates a new vision of masculinity that could complement the
Romantic desire for agency, individualism and selfhood embodied in
her heroines. Rewriting desirable masculinity as an internalised,
psychologically complex and authentic gender identity - a model of
manhood that drives the ongoing appeal and cultural power of her
men in the twenty-first century - Austen explores both the
challenges and the opportunities for male selfhood, romantic love
and feminine agency. Jane Austen's Men is among the first
full-length works to explore Austen's male protagonists as textual
constructions of masculinity. Sarah Ailwood reveals the depth of
Austen's engagement with her predecessors and contemporaries,
including Mary Wollstonecraft, Jane West and Jane Porter, on
critical questions of masculinity and its relationship to
femininity and narrative form. This book illuminates in new ways
Jane Austen's ambitions for the novel, and the political power of
the courtship romance genre in the Romantic era.
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