Constructions of Masculinity in British Literature from the Middle Ages to the Present

Chapter 1 Charting the Field of Masculinity Studies; or, Toward a Literary History of Masculinities

Chapter 2 The Construction of the Construction of Masculinities

Chapter 3 Masculinity Inside Out: The Biopolitical Lessons of Transgender and Intersex Studies

Chapter 4 Wrestling in the Moonlight: The Politics of Masculinity in the Middle English Popular Romance Gamelyn

Chapter 5 “Merit, Justice, Gratitude, Duty, Fidelity”: Images of Masculinity in Autobiographies of Early Modern English Gentlewomen and Aristocrats

Chapter 6 The ‘Crisis’ of Masculinity in Seventeenth-Century England

Chapter 7 Augustan Manliness and Its Anxieties: Shaftesbury and Swift

Chapter 8 Fortified Masculinity: Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe as a Literary Emblem of Western Male Identity

Chapter 9 The Invisible Center: Conceptions of Masculinity in Victorian Fiction—Realist, Crime, Detective, and Gothic

Chapter 10 The Props of Masculinity in Late Victorian Adventure Fiction

Chapter 11 A Man Could Stand Up: Masculinities and the Great War

Chapter 12 Baffled Hopes and Bad Habits: Men, Marriage, and Conformity in Queer Theory and Gay Representation

Chapter 13 Cultural Hybridity and Fluid Masculinities in the Postcolonial Metropolis: Individualized Gender Identities in Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia and The Black Album

Chapter 14 Who Is That Man? Lad Trouble in High Fidelity, The Best a Man Can Get , and White City Blue