Introduction / Rainer Emig and Antony Rowland
Touching Byron: masculinity and the celebrity body in the romantic period / Diego Saglia
Turning into subjects: the male dancer in romantic ballet / Gerald Siegmund
Industrial heroes: Elizabeth Gaskell and Charlotte Brontë's constructions of the masculine / Jessica L. Malay
Low on assurance: the troubled masculinity of Victorian comedy / Rainer Emig
Performing imperial masculinities: the discourse and practice of cricket / Anthony Bateman
"A Stoat Came to Tea": camp poetics and masculinity / Antony Rowland
Lethal enclosure: masculinity under fire in James Jones's The thin red line / David Boulting
In their fathers' footsteps: performing masculinity and fatherhood in the work of Les Murray and Michael Ondaatje / Katharine Burkitt
Seeding Asian masculinities in the U.S. landscape: representations of men's lives in Asian American literature / Wendy Ho
From flam rock to cock rock: revis(it)ing rock masculinities in recent feature films / Lucia Krämer
Histories of violence : fairytales of identity and masculinity in Martin McDonagh's The lieutenant of Inishmore and The pillowman / Wolfgang Funk
"Ghosts of Sparta": performing the God of War's virtual masculinity / Sven Schmalful.