The image of manhood in early modern literature : viewing the male / edited by Andrew P. Williams.

Westport, Conn. : London : Greenwood Press, 1999.

xv, 196 pages ; 25 cm.

Acknowledgements -- Introduction / Andrew Williams -- Masculine disaffection and misogynistic displacement in Carew's love lyrics / Ian McAdam -- A garden of desire, a meadow of decay: masculine identity crisis in Marvell's mower poems / Edward J. Whitelock -- "The blushing shame of shoulders": the eroticism of heroic masculinity in John Fletcher's Bonduca / Goran Stanivukovic -- "A place privileged to do men wrong": the anxious masculinity of The maid's tragedy / Lisa Hopkins -- Manliness and misogyny in Dryden's Aeneid / Taylor Corse -- Soft women and softer men: the libertine maintenance of masculine identity / Andrew P. Williams -- Displacing masculinity: Edward Kynaston and the politics of effeminacy / Thomas A. King -- Godly manliness: Defoe's Good men in bad times / Stephen Gregg -- Clarissa's "Man of violence" and Grandison's "Truly good men": masculine homogeneity in Richardson / Susan Korba -- Selected bibliography -- Index -- Contributors.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-189) and index.