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Women Constructing Men - Female Novelists and Their Male Characters, 1750 - 2000 (Paperback)
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Women Constructing Men - Female Novelists and Their Male Characters, 1750 - 2000 (Paperback)
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Female novelists have always invested as much narrative energy in
constructing their male characters-heroes and villains-as in
envisioning their female protagonists, but this fact has received
very little scholarly attention to date. In Women Constructing Men,
scholars from Australia, Canada, Germany, Great Britain and the
United States begin to sketch the outline of a new literary history
of women writing men in the English-speaking world from the
eighteenth century until today. By rediscovering forgotten texts,
rereading novels by high canonical female authors, refocusing the
interest in well-known novels, and analyzing contemporary narrative
constructions of masculinity, the contributing scholars demonstrate
that female authors create male characters every bit as complex as
their male counterparts. Using a variety of theoretical models and
coming to an equal variety of conclusions, the essays collected in
Women Constructing Men skilfully demonstrate that the topic of
female-authored masculinities not only allows scholars to re-read
and re-discover almost every novel ever written by a woman writer,
but also triggers reflections on a host of theoretical questions of
gender and genre. In re-examining these male characters across
literary history, these articles extend the feminist question of
"Who has the authority to create a female character?" to "Who has
the authority to create any character?".
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