Anthologies and Masculine Narrative

An audiobook and a scholar book with Brontë content:

The Anthology of English Prose
ISBN: 9781906392635
Format: Audio CD
Publisher: Saland Publishing

The styles and rhythms of English can vary fully as much as in poetry. Therefore to compliment The Anthology Of English Poetry (SP029), The Anthology Of English Prose aims to enchant with the best of English prose, and to illustrate the ways in which each great writer has bent the language to his will. The recordings were made in the the 1950s by members of the University of Cambridge and directed by George Rylands.

Includes:

11. Extract from 'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Bronte
12. Extract from 'Villette' by Charlotte Bronte

Women Constructing Men: Female Novelists and Their Male Characters, 1750–2000
Edited by Sarah S. G. Frantz and Katharina Rennhak
Lexington Books
Cloth 0-7391-3365-9 / 978-0-7391-3365-1
Dec 2009

Female novelists have always invested as much narrative energy in constructing their male characters—heroes and villains—as in envisioning their female protagonists, but this fact has received very little scholarly attention to date. In Women Constructing Men, scholars from Australia, Canada, Germany, Great Britain and the United States begin to sketch the outline of a new literary history of women writing men in the English-speaking world from the eighteenth century until today. By rediscovering forgotten texts, rereading novels by high canonical female authors, refocusing the interest in well-known novels, and analyzing contemporary narrative constructions of masculinity, the contributing scholars demonstrate that female authors create male characters every bit as complex as their male counterparts.
Using a variety of theoretical models and coming to an equal variety of conclusions, the essays collected in Women Constructing Men skilfully demonstrate that the topic of female-authored masculinities not only allows scholars to re-read and re-discover almost every novel ever written by a woman writer, but also triggers reflections on a host of theoretical questions of gender and genre. In re-examining these male characters across literary history, these articles extend the feminist question of "Who has the authority to create a female character?" to "Who has the authority to create any character?".

It includes the essay
Constructing Masculine Narrative: Charlotte Brontë's The Professor by Sara Pearson.

Categories: Audio-Radio, Books, Scholar