Horlacher, Stefan. <br/><br/>
Configuring Masculinity in Theory and Literary Practice. 

 - Leiden :  BRILL,  2015. 
 - 1 online resource (326 pages) 
 - DQR Studies in Literature .
 - DQR studies in literature. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Configuring Masculinity inTheory and Literary Practice; Contents; Acknowledgments; Configuring Masculinity; Concepts of Masculinity and Masculinity Studies; Masculinities: The Field of Knowledge; On Reading Men, Law and Gender: Legal Regulationand the New Politics of Masculinity; Masculinity in Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur; From Antisocial to Prosocial Manhood:Shakespeare's Rescripting of Masculinity in As You Like It; Sentimental Masculinity: Henry Mackenzie'sThe Man of Feeling (1771). "Joseph the Dreamer of Dreams": Jude Fawley's Constructionof Masculinity in Thomas Hardy's Jude the ObscureFrom Angry Young Scholarship Boy to Male Role Model:The Rise of the Working-Class Hero; "Filiarchy" and Masculinity in the Early Novels ofIan McEwan; "What Is a Man?", or the Representation of Masculinityin Hanif Kureishi's Short Fiction; Of Invisible Men and Native Sons: Male Characters inCaryl Phillips' Fiction; Surrogate Dads: Interrogating Fatherhood in Will Self'sThe Book of Dave; Notes on Contributors; Index. 
<br/><br/> Configuring Masculinity in Theory and Literary Practice combines a critical survey of the most important concepts in Masculinity Studies with a historical overview of how masculinity has been constructed within British Literature and a special focus on developments in the 20th and 21st centuries. 
<br/><br/><br/>English. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9004299009 9789004299009 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Men in literature.<br/>Masculinity in literature.<br/>English literature--History and criticism.<br/>Hommes dans la littérature.<br/>Masculinité dans la littérature.<br/>Littérature anglaise--Histoire et critique.<br/>LITERARY CRITICISM--European--English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.<br/>LITERARY CRITICISM / General<br/>English literature.<br/>Masculinity in literature.<br/>Men in literature.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.<br/>Criticism, interpretation, etc.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PR478.M34