Chapter 1 Female Novelists and Their Male Characters, 1750-2000: An Introduction -- Chapter 2 Happy Men?: Mid-Eighteenth-Century Women Writers and Ideal Masculinity -- Chapter 3 Male Privilege in Frances Burney's The Wanderer -- Chapter 4 The Medium Makes the Man: Anne Plumptre's Something New and The History of Myself and My Friend -- Chapter 5 "Too much in the common Novel style": Reforming Masculinities in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility -- Chapter 6 Constructing Masculine Narrative: Charlotte Brontë's The Professor -- Chapter 7 The Lifted Veil: George Eliot's Experiment with First-Person Narrative -- Chapter 8 Assimilating the "pretty youngster": George Eliot's Eroticized Men on the Borderlines of Morality, Religion, Race, and Nation -- Chapter 9 "His spirituality or his manliness": Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's (Re)Constructions of Christian Masculinity -- Chapter 10 The Differential Construction of Masculinity in the Writings of Virginia Woolf -- Chapter 11 Knitting Paradise Lost: Masculinity and Domesticity in the Novels of Carol Shields -- Chapter 12 Looking (Im)Properly: Women Objectifying Men's Bodies in Contemporary Australian Women's Fiction -- Chapter 13 Unmaking the Self-Made Man: Louise Erdrich's Fictional Exploration of Masculinity -- Chapter 14 "I've tried my entire life to be a good man": Suzanne Brockmann's Sam Starrett, Ideal Romance Hero -- Bibliography -- About the Contributors.