Masculinity in four Victorian epics
Subtitle: a Darwinist reading
By: by Clinton Machann.
Publisher: Ashgate Pub.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754666875
Subjects: Darwin, Charles, -- 1809-1882 -- Influence; Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, -- Baron, -- 1809-1892; Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, -- 1806-1861; Clough, Arthur Hugh, -- 1819-1861; Browning, Robert, -- 1812-1889; Darwin, Charles, -- 1809-1882 -- Influence; English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Masculinity in literature; Narrative poetry, English -- History and criticism; Social Darwinism in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Tennyson's Arthur and manly codes of behavior; title: Barrett Browning's construction of masculinity in Aurora Leigh; title: Clough's ambivalent Victorian manhood; title: Browning's chivalrous Christianity.