1st Edition
Women Writing Men 1689 to 1869
1. Introduction
Joanne Ella Parsons and Ruth Heholt
2. "[T]hat Where One was, There was the Other": Dreams of Queer Stories in Aphra Behn’s The History of the Nun, or, The Fair Vow-Breaker (1689)
Kirsten T. Saxton
3. "A Fit Companion for a Woman of Sense": Jane West’s Re-Education of Masculine Norms in Letters Addressed to a Young Man (1802) and The Infidel Father (1802)
Megan A. Woodworth
4. Edgeworth, Owenson, and the Masculine Border
Meredith Miller
5. Reading the Absence: The Shaping of Male Characters and their Crises in the Void
Christie Margrave
6. A Woman’s Thoughts about Men: Malthus and Middle-Class Masculinity in Dinah Mulock Craik’s John Halifax, Gentleman
Helena Goodwyn
7. George Eliot Writing the Drunken Husband: "Janet’s Repentance" as a study of Male Violence and Co-Dependence
Pam Lock
8. Sketching the New Man Out: Ellen Wood’s Exploration of Victorian Masculinity
Mariaconcetta Costantini
9. Women Writing Creole Masculinity
Helen Thomas
Biography
Joanne Ella Parsons is Lecturer at Falmouth University, UK, and Advanced Studies in England (a branch college of Franklin and Marshall, USA).
Ruth Heholt is Senior Lecturer of Dark Economies and Gothic Literature at Falmouth University, UK.
