Jane Austen's Men: Rewriting Masculinity in the Romantic Era

by Sarah Ailwood

Book Overview

This book illuminates Jane Austen's exploration of masculinity through the courtship romance genre in the socially, politically and culturally turbulent Romantic era. Austen scrutinises, satirises, censures and ultimately rewrites dominant modes of masculinity through the courtship romance plot between her heroines and male protagonists. This book reveals that Austen pioneers and celebrates a new vision of masculinity that could complement the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 103224058X
• ISBN13: 9781032240589
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"