Title: New Man, Masculinity and Marriage in the Victorian Novel
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.
Subjects: English fiction, history and criticism, 19th century, Men in literature, Masculinity in literature, Marriage in literature, English fiction, History and criticism, History, Masculinity, Fiction