Jane Austen and Masculinity

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.

“Jane Austen and Masculinity offers us new ways to understand the deep significance and complex meanings of Austen’s men. We’ve spent so much energy assessing Mr. Darcy’s hot-or-not-ness that we’ve rarely sought to understand how he fits into a more extensive consideration of Austenian manhood. This book’s essays consider a wide range of subjects, from heroes and fathers, to whiners and melancholics, to duels and music. Its contents draw us into historical and contemporary debates about Austen, gender, and masculinity. Editor Michael Kramp has given us a timely, compelling book on a surprisingly neglected subject.”- Devoney Looser (author of The Making of Jane Austen) "[Jane Austen and Masculinity] provides a comprehensive, helpful overview both of the emergence of masculinity studies as a field and also of existing scholarship on Austen’s depictions of men." (European Romantic Review) “The essays brought together here provide a suitably kaleidoscopic view of maleness, both in Austen’s own works and in the reformulations and extensions of those works critically, cinematically, and fictionally. . . . As a whole . . . this book provides thoughtful variety in its views of men and masculinity associated with Austen’s novels, all the richer for its broader considerations of contexts and aftereffects of Austen’s men.” (Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer) “Jane Austen and Masculinity is a welcome addition to the significant body of work on Austen and gender.” (Eighteenth-Century Fiction)

• 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 Y1          Sketches of Men’s Kvetches: Domestic Masculinities in Emma and Persuasion       Jan Fergus2          Failures of the Patriarchy: Fathers as Role Models in Jane Austen   Kit Kincade3          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 G4          “I could meet him in no other way”: Dueling, the Culture of Honor, and Modern Masculinity in Sense and SensibilityMegan A. Woodworth5          The Sensibility of Captain Benwick in Literary and Historical Context          Natasha Duquette6          “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 S7          Empire of the Sensible: Disciplining Love and the 1990’s Austen Craze      Carol Siegel and Bryce Campbell8          Austen’s Dandies: Frank Churchill and Henry Crawford Play Dress UpZachary 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 S9          Waltzing with Wellington, Biting with Byron: Heroes in Austen’s Tribute TextsLisa Hopkins10        “What a man should be”: (Re-)Imagining Austenian Masculinity in Film and YouTube FanvidsRebecca White11        Virginia Woolf and the Gentlemen Janeites, or the Origins of Modern Austen Criticism, 1870–1929Jason 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 Y12        Performing to Strangers: Masculinity, Adaptation, and Music in Pride and Prejudice (1995)Gayle Magee13        Austen, Music, and ManhoodLinda Zionkowski and Miriam Hart  Bibliography  Index  About the Contributors