Women Constructing Men

Female Novelists and Their Male Characters, 1750 - 2000

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Feminist Criticism, Women Authors, Nonfiction, History
Cover of the book Women Constructing Men by Sarah Ailwood, Katherine Bode, Frederick Burwick, Rainer Emig, Sarah S. G. Frantz, George E. Haggerty, Roxanne Harde, Angela Laflen, Shawn Lisa Maurer, Ellen McWilliams, Sara Pearson, Virginia Richter, Lexington Books
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Author: Sarah Ailwood, Katherine Bode, Frederick Burwick, Rainer Emig, Sarah S. G. Frantz, George E. Haggerty, Roxanne Harde, Angela Laflen, Shawn Lisa Maurer, Ellen McWilliams, Sara Pearson, Virginia Richter ISBN: 9780739133675
Publisher: Lexington Books Publication: December 3, 2009
Imprint: Lexington Books Language: English
Author: Sarah Ailwood, Katherine Bode, Frederick Burwick, Rainer Emig, Sarah S. G. Frantz, George E. Haggerty, Roxanne Harde, Angela Laflen, Shawn Lisa Maurer, Ellen McWilliams, Sara Pearson, Virginia Richter
ISBN: 9780739133675
Publisher: Lexington Books
Publication: December 3, 2009
Imprint: Lexington Books
Language: English

Female novelists have always invested as much narrative energy in constructing their male characters_heroes and villains_as in envisioning their female protagonists, but this fact has received very little scholarly attention to date. In Women Constructing Men, scholars from Australia, Canada, Germany, Great Britain and the United States begin to sketch the outline of a new literary history of women writing men in the English-speaking world from the eighteenth century until today. By rediscovering forgotten texts, rereading novels by high canonical female authors, refocusing the interest in well-known novels, and analyzing contemporary narrative constructions of masculinity, the contributing scholars demonstrate that female authors create male characters every bit as complex as their male counterparts. Using a variety of theoretical models and coming to an equal variety of conclusions, the essays collected in Women Constructing Men skilfully demonstrate that the topic of female-authored masculinities not only allows scholars to re-read and re-discover almost every novel ever written by a woman writer, but also triggers reflections on a host of theoretical questions of gender and genre. In re-examining these male characters across literary history, these articles extend the feminist question of 'Who has the authority to create a female character?' to 'Who has the authority to create any character?'.

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Female novelists have always invested as much narrative energy in constructing their male characters_heroes and villains_as in envisioning their female protagonists, but this fact has received very little scholarly attention to date. In Women Constructing Men, scholars from Australia, Canada, Germany, Great Britain and the United States begin to sketch the outline of a new literary history of women writing men in the English-speaking world from the eighteenth century until today. By rediscovering forgotten texts, rereading novels by high canonical female authors, refocusing the interest in well-known novels, and analyzing contemporary narrative constructions of masculinity, the contributing scholars demonstrate that female authors create male characters every bit as complex as their male counterparts. Using a variety of theoretical models and coming to an equal variety of conclusions, the essays collected in Women Constructing Men skilfully demonstrate that the topic of female-authored masculinities not only allows scholars to re-read and re-discover almost every novel ever written by a woman writer, but also triggers reflections on a host of theoretical questions of gender and genre. In re-examining these male characters across literary history, these articles extend the feminist question of 'Who has the authority to create a female character?' to 'Who has the authority to create any character?'.

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