The Victorian Novel and Masculinity [electronic resource] /
Mallett, P.editor.
What did it mean, in the rapidly changing world of Victorian England, to 'be a man'? In essays written specially for this volume, nine distinguished scholars from Britain and the USA show how Victorian novelists from the Brontës to Conrad sought to discover what made men, what broke them, and what restored them.
Cover; Contents; Preface; Notes on Contributors; 1 Masculinity, Power and Play in the Work of the Brontës; 2 Working-Class Masculinity and the Victorian Novel; 3 Dickens and Masculinity: The Necessity of the Nurturing Male; 4 Tomboys and Girly Boys in George Eliot's Early Fiction; 5 Manful Sensations: Affect, Domesticity and Class Status Anxiety in East Lynne and Aurora Floyd; 6 Growing up to Be a Man: Thomas Hardy and Masculinity; 7 Masculinity, Imperialism and the Novel; 8 Aestheticism, Resistance and the Realist Novel: Marius and Masculinity; 9 Conrad's Theatre of Masculinities; Index
Includes index.
What did it mean, in the rapidly changing world of Victorian England, to 'be a man'? In essays written specially for this volume, nine distinguished scholars from Britain and the USA show how Victorian novelists from the Brontës to Conrad sought to discover what made men, what broke them, and what restored them.
Sociology.
Literature.
Fiction.
Literature, Modern—19th century.
British literature.
Social history.
Gender Studies.
Literature, general.
Fiction.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
British and Irish Literature.
Social History.