Becoming the Gentleman [electronic resource] : British Literature and the Invention of Modern Masculinity, 1660-1815 /
Solinger, J.author.
Becoming the Gentleman explains why British citizens in the long eighteenth century were haunted by the question of what it meant to be a gentleman. Supplementing recent work on femininity, Solinger identifies a corpus of texts that address masculinity and challenges the notion of a masculine figure that has been regarded as unchanging.
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""Cover""; ""Half-Title""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction                   ""; ""1 Gentlemen and Their Knowledge of the World                                                   ""; ""2 The Politics of Alexander Popeâ€?s Urbanity                                                  ""; ""3 The Dissemination of Knowledge of the World from The Connoisseur to Evelina                                                                                    ""; ""4 Austenâ€?s Fiction in the Age of Commerce                                                ""
""5 Sir Walter Scott and the Gentrification of Empire                                                          """"Conclusion                 ""; ""Postscript: Old Sir Walter                                 ""; ""Notes            ""; ""Works Cited                  ""; ""Index            ""
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Becoming the Gentleman explains why British citizens in the long eighteenth century were haunted by the question of what it meant to be a gentleman. Supplementing recent work on femininity, Solinger identifies a corpus of texts that address masculinity and challenges the notion of a masculine figure that has been regarded as unchanging.
Sociology.
Literature.
Literature-Philosophy.
Culture-Study and teaching.
British literature.
Literature, Modern-18th century.
Gender Studies.
Literature, general.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
British and Irish Literature.
Eighteenth-Century Literature.