Jane Austen and Masculinity

This wide-ranging collection of contemporary scholarship is the first to consider representations of men and masculinity in the work and adaptations of Jane Austen. Established and emerging Austen scholars from around the world discuss critical issues raised by her fictional treatment of masculinity, such as evolving social expectations, brothers and fathers, male lovers, soldiers and the military, queer and alternative sexualities, violence, and male devotees of Austen. Encompassing the novels, juvenilia, and popular adaptations of her work, Jane Austen and Masculinity makes an important intervention, building on established scholarship in masculinity studies and inviting further research on gender and sexuality within Austen’s corpus. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

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