Disciplining love : Austen and the modern man
"The years following the French Revolution fostered a period of cultural instability in England. This cultural instability led to the dynamic developments in sexual identity and gender relationships that we can observe in the novels of Jane Austen. While numerous scholars have intelligently taken up the topic of Austen's women and the social construction of femininity in her narratives, the issues both of Austen's men and of the social function of masculinity remain relatively under-discussed. In Disciplining Love, Michael Kramp offers a fresh perspective on the dynamic function of gender, love, and desire in the novels of Austen, initiating a new direction in the study of the early-nineteenth-century novelist by employing the theoretical writings of Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault to read Austen's corpus
Print Book, English, ©2007
Ohio State University Press, Columbus, ©2007
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xvi, 202 pages ; 24 cm
9780814210468, 9780814291269, 0814210465, 0814291260
71507952
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