New Men in Trollope's Novels
Subtitle: Rewriting the Victorian Male (The Nineteenth Century Series)
Publisher: Ashgate Pub Co; Ashgate
Published: December 31, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780754657248
Subjects: Literary studies: 19th century; General; Literary Criticism; Masculinity in literature; Men in literature
Description: Margaret Markwick shows that The New Man, so heralded by our generation, is alive and well in Trollope's novels, changing the nappies, making the gravy, pushing the pram, hugging his sons and his daughters. Victorian men are not who we have popularly constructed them to be.