Disciplining Love Austen and the Modern Man /
Michael Kramp.
- 1 online resource (xvi, 202 p.)
- Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-193) and index.
Love, social/sexual organization, and Austen -- The emergence of the modern nation and the development of the modern man -- Rationalizing the anxieties of Austen's juvenilia: Henry Tilney's composite masculinity -- Austen's sensitive men: Willoughby, Brandon, and the regulation of sensation -- Austen's tradesmen: improving masculinity in Pride and prejudice -- Exposing Burkean masculinity, or Edmund confronts modernity -- Remaking English manhood, or accepting modernity: Knightley's fused finitude -- Imagining malleable masculinity and radical nomadism in Persuasion.