Disciplining Love: Austen and the Modern Man - Tapa dura

""Disciplining Love" is a fascinating, provocative, and highly readable book. It provides fine close readings of Austen's men" as men""." Copious references to the male characters featured in the fiction of Austen's contemporaries also make the book indispensable. Michael Kramp's analysis of early modern masculinity allows us to see the ways in which Austen follows--not just how she radically departs from--those who came before her." Disciplining Love" is beautifully written and deserves a wide audience." --Devoney Looser, associate professor of English, University of Missouri-Columbia

" Disciplining Love" is a fascinating, provocative, and highly readable book. It provides fine close readings of Austen s men" as men"."" Copious references to the male characters featured in the fiction of Austen s contemporaries also make the book indispensable. Michael Kramp s analysis of early modern masculinity allows us to see the ways in which Austen follows not just how she radically departs from those who came before her." Disciplining Love" is beautifully written and deserves a wide audience. Devoney Looser, associate professor of English, University of Missouri-Columbia"

Michael Kramp is associate professor of English and director of Cultural Studies at the University of Northern Colorado.