Michael Kramp is associate professor of English at Lehigh University.

• AcknowledgementsList of Abbreviations Introduction: Austen and Masculinity by Michael KrampPart I: Men, Domesticity, and the FamilyChapter 1: Sketches of Men’s Kvetches: Domestic Masculinities in Emma and Persuasion by Jane FergusChapter 2: Failures of the Patriarchy: Fathers as Role Models in Jane Austen by Kit KincadeChapter 3: The Paradox of Masculine Agency in Jane Austen’s Early Works by Joanne WilkesPart 11: Masculinity, Honor, and Feeling Chapter 4: ’I could meet him in no other way’: Dueling, the Culture of Honor, and Modern Masculinity in Sense and Sensibility by Megan WoodworthChapter 5: The Sensibility of Captain Benwick in Literary and Historical Context by Natasha DuquetteChapter 6: ’Till he began to stagger her’: Melancholia and Literary Men by Enit K. SteinerPart III: Male Sexualities and DesiresChapter 7: Empire of the Sensible: Disciplining Love and the 1990’s Austen Craze by Carol Siegel and Bryce CampbellChapter 8: Austen’s Dandies: Frank Churchill and H

Kramp’s introduction to this new book provides a comprehensive, helpful overview both of the emergence of masculinity studies as a field and also of existing scholarship on Austen’s depictions of men.