Women Constructing Men: Female Novelists and Their Male Characters, 1750-2000

by SarahS.G.Frantz (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2010

  $116.21

  Female novelists have always invested as much narrative energy in constructing their male characters as in envisioning their female. The collected articles in demonstrate that the topic of female-authored masculinities not only allows scholars to re-discover almost every novel written by a woman, but also triggers reflections on a host of theoretical questions of gender and genre.