1st Edition
Patriarchy’s Creative Resilience Late Victorian Speculative Fiction
Introduction Patriarchy’s Creative Resilience and the Hopes of Imaginative Horizons
Chapter I Framing Threats, Sustaining White Male Supremacy: The Imaginative Work of Victorian Patriarchy
Chapter II Remaking England, Refashioning Hegemonic Masculinity, Sustaining Patriarchy
Chapter III Controlling Dangerous Women in The Coming Race and Flatland
Chapter IV Justifying Patriarchy: Performing Male Sovereignty in The Revolt of Man and Vice Versa
Chapter V Patriarchy’s Ultimate Resilience: Authoritarian Masculinity in The Inner House and Ionia
Chapter VI Conclusion: Patriarchal Strategies of Division in Late Nineteenth-Century Feminist Utopias
Afterword
Biography
Michael Kramp is Professor of English at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA, U.S.A. He received his Ph.D. in English from Washington State University, where he was the Charles Blackburn Fellow. He is the author of Disciplining Love: Austen and the Modern Man (The Ohio State University Press, 2007) and editor of Jane Austen and Masculinity (Bucknell University Press, 2017) and Jane Austen and Critical Theory (Routledge, 2021). He is co-editing the first scholarly edition of William Delisle Hay’s The Doom of the Great City (1880).
