Constructions of Masculinity in British Literature from the Middle Ages to the Present

Part I: Theoretical Framework * Masculinity, Sexual Identity, and the Importance of Literature--Stefan Horlacher * The Construction of the Construction of Masculinities--Harry Brod * On Reading Men, Law, and Gender: Legal Regulation and the New Politics of Masculinity--Richard Collier * Masculinity Inside Out: The Biopolitical Lessons of Transgender and Intersex Studies--Kevin Floyd * Part II: Literature from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century *  Robin, Gamelyn, and Medieval Masculine Escapism--Andrew James Johnston * Masculinity and Chivalric Prowess in Thomas Malory’s Morte d'Arthur--Christoph Houswitschka * Shakespeare’s Rescripting of Masculinity in As You Like It--Mark Bracher * "Merit, Justice, Gratitude, Duty, Fidelity": Images of Masculinity in Autobiographies of Early Modern English Gentlewomen and Aristocrats--Gabriele Rippl * The 'Crisis' of Masculinity in Seventeenth-century England-- Michael Kimmel * Augustan Manliness and Its Anxieties: Shaftesbury and Swift--Isabel Karremann * The Male Gaze versus Sexual Ventriloquism: Masculinities in Daniel Defoe's Novels--Laurenz Volkmann * Sentimental Masculinity: Henry Mackenzie's The Man of Feeling--Rainer Emig * Concepts of Masculinity in Victorian Crime, Detective, and Gothic Fiction--Ralf Schneider * The Props of Masculinity in Victorian Adventure Fiction--Susanne Scholz and Nicola Dropmann * Re-Reading Jude the Obscure: Patriarchal Laws, the Symbolic Order, and the Illusion of a Metaphysics of Presence--Stefan Horlacher * Part III: Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Literature * A Man Could Stand Up: Masculinities and the Great War--Siliva Mergenthal * From Working Class Loser Boy to Male Role Model: The Rise of the Angry Young Man--Sebastian Müller * 'Filiarchy' and the Male Principle in the Early Work of Ian McEwan--Fatemeh Hosseini * Baffled Hopes and Bad Habits: Gay Men and Romance in Novels by E. M. Forster, Tom Wakefield and Alan Hollinghurst--Berthold Schoene * Cultural Hybridity and Fluid Masculinities in the Post Colonial Metropolis: Individualized Gender Identities in Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia and The Black Album--Meinhard Winkgens * Lad Trouble: The Crisis of Masculinity in the Fiction of Nick Hornby, John O'Farrell, and Tim Lott--Andrea Ochsner

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