Configuring Masculinity in Theory and Literary Practice

Download or read book Configuring Masculinity in Theory and Literary Practice written by Stefan Horlacher and published by Dqr Studies in Literature. This book was released on 2015 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book 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. 0The 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.