Women Writing Men : 1689 to 1869 (Paperback)

1. Introduction  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)  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)  4. Edgeworth, Owenson, and the Masculine Border  5. Reading the Absence: The Shaping of Male Characters and their Crises in the Void  6. A Woman’s Thoughts about Men: Malthus and Middle-Class Masculinity in Dinah Mulock Craik’s John Halifax, Gentleman  7. George Eliot Writing the Drunken Husband: "Janet’s Repentance" as a study of Male Violence and Co-Dependence  8. Sketching the New Man Out: Ellen Wood’s Exploration of Victorian Masculinity  9. Women Writing Creole Masculinity