Configuring masculinity in theory and literary practice / edited by Stefan Horlacher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary material / Editors Configuring Masculinity in Theory and Literary Practice -- CONFIGURING MASCULINITY / STEFAN HORLACHER -- CONCEPTS OF MASCULINITY AND MASCULINITY STUDIES / TODD W. REESER -- MASCULINITIES: THE FIELD OF KNOWLEDGE / RAEWYN CONNELL -- ON READING MEN, LAW AND GENDER: LEGAL REGULATION AND THE NEW POLITICS OF MASCULINITY / RICHARD COLLIER -- MASCULINITY IN THOMAS MALORY'S MORTE DARTHUR / CHRISTOPH HOUSWITSCHKA -- FROM ANTISOCIAL TO PROSOCIAL MANHOOD: SHAKESPEARE'S RESCRIPTING OF MASCULINITY IN AS YOU LIKE IT / MARK BRACHER -- SENTIMENTAL MASCULINITY: HENRY MACKENZIE'S THE MAN OF FEELING (1771) / RAINER EMIG -- "JOSEPH THE DREAMER OF DREAMS": JUDE FAWLEY'S CONSTRUCTION OF MASCULINITY IN THOMAS HARDY'S JUDE THE OBSCURE / STEFAN HORLACHER -- FROM ANGRY YOUNG SCHOLARSHIP BOY TO MALE ROLE MODEL: THE RISE OF THE WORKING-CLASS HERO / SEBASTIAN MÜLLER -- "FILIARCHY" AND MASCULINITY IN THE EARLY NOVELS OF IAN MCEWAN / FATEMEH HOSSEINI -- "WHAT IS A MAN?", OR THE REPRESENTATION OF MASCULINITY IN HANIF KUREISHI'S SHORT FICTION / BETTINA SCHÖTZ -- OF INVISIBLE MEN AND NATIVE SONS: MALE CHARACTERS IN CARYL PHILLIPS' FICTION / BÉNÉDICTE LEDENT -- SURROGATE DADS: INTERROGATING FATHERHOOD IN WILL SELF'S THE BOOK OF DAVE / DANIEL LUKES -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS / Editors Configuring Masculinity in Theory and Literary Practice -- INDEX / Editors Configuring Masculinity in Theory and Literary Practice.

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Configuring Masculinity in Theory and Literary Practice combines a critical survey of the most current developments in the emergent field of Masculinity Studies with both a historical overview of how masculinity has been constructed within British Literature from the Middle Ages to the present and a special focus on developments in the 20th and 21st centuries. The volume combines seminal articles on the most important concepts in Masculinity Studies by acknowledged experts such as Raewyn Connell, Todd Reeser, and Richard Collier with new and innovative analyses of key British literary texts combining Literary and Cultural Studies approaches with those currently deployed in Masculinity Studies, Gender Studies, Legal Studies, Postcolonial Studies as well as methodologies derived from sociology.