The new man, masculinity and marriage in the Victorian novel
By: by Tara MacDonald
Series: Gender and genre -- no. 14; Gender and genre -- no. 14.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9781315654010
Subjects: Men in literature; History; Masculinity; Fiction; Hommes dans la littérature; Histoire; Masculinité; Roman
Description: By tracing the rise of the New Man alongside novelistic changes in the representations of marriage, MacDonald shows how this figure encouraged Victorian writers to reassess masculine behaviour and to re-imagine the marriage plot in light of wider social changes. She finds examples in novels by Dickens, Anne Bront©±, George Eliot and George Gissing.
Notes: Originally published 2015 by Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Limited.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-176) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Middle-class manliness and the Dickensian gentleman; title: 2. Healing masculinity in mid-century fiction; title: 3. Doctors, dandies and new men in new women fiction; title: 4. The retreat of the new man at the Fin de Si©·cle; title: 5. Sympathy, suffering and Schreiner's colonial new men.