STEFAN HORLACHER Professor of English Literature and Chair of the English Department at Dresden University of Technology, Germany.

"[A] very enjoyable and wide-ranging collection ... [These essays] offer refreshing and, more often than not, original perspectives on a broad range of struggles for masculine identity." - Anglia "Constructions of Masculinity in British Literature from the Middle Ages to the Present has vast ambitions ... Altogether, the collection succeeds in providing a survey of historical literary masculinities." - Anglistik

• Table 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 Index