Kramp, Michael.

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.

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Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 --Influence.
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 --Characters--Men.
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 --Criticism and interpretation.


Men in literature.
Masculinity in literature.


Electronic books.

PR4037 / .K73 2007

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