Configuring Masculinity in Theory and Literary Practice

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-90-04-29899-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 58, 318 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 635 g

Reihe: DQR Studies in Literature

Configuring Masculinity in Theory and Literary Practice combines a critical survey of the most current developments in the emergent field of Masculinity Studies with both a historical overview of how masculinity has been constructed within British Literature from the Middle Ages to the present and a special focus on developments in the 20th and 21st centuries.
The volume combines seminal articles on the most important concepts in Masculinity Studies by acknowledged experts such as Raewyn Connell, Todd Reeser, and Richard Collier with new and innovative analyses of key British literary texts combining Literary and Cultural Studies approaches with those currently deployed in Masculinity Studies, Gender Studies, Legal Studies, Postcolonial Studies as well as methodologies derived from sociology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Horlacher, Stefan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

CONTENTS

Stefan Horlacher
Configuring Masculinity

Todd W. Reeser
Concepts of Masculinity and Masculinity Studies

Raewyn Connell
Masculinities: The Field of Knowledge

Richard Collier
On Reading Men, Law and Gender: Legal Regulation and the New Politics of Masculinity

Christoph Houswitschka
Masculinity in Thomas Malory’s Morte Darthur

Mark Bracher
From Antisocial to Prosocial Manhood: Shakespeare’s Rescripting of Masculinity in As You Like It

Rainer Emig
Sentimental Masculinity: Henry Mackenzie’s The Man of Feeling (1771)

Stefan Horlacher
“Joseph the Dreamer of Dreams”: Jude Fawley’s Construction of Masculinity in Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure

Sebastian Müller
From Angry Young Scholarship Boy to Male Role Model: The Rise of the Working-Class Hero

Fatemeh Hosseini
“Filiarchy” and Masculinity in the Early Novels of Ian McEwan

Bettina Schötz
“What Is a Man?”, or the Representation of Masculinity in Hanif Kureishi’s Short Fiction

Bénédicte Ledent
Of Invisible Men and Native Sons: Male Characters in Caryl Phillips’ Fiction

Daniel Lukes
Surrogate Dads: Interrogating Fatherhood in Will Self’sThe Book of Dave

Notes on Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Stefan Horlacher is Chair of English Literature at Dresden University of Technology. He has published widely on English Literature from the Renaissance to the present, on Gender and Masculinity Studies, Media Studies, psychoanalysis, semiotics, and theories of the comic.