1st Edition
Manliness and the Male Novelist in Victorian Literature
By Andrew Dowling
Copyright 2001
148 Pages
by
Routledge
148 Pages
by
Routledge
148 Pages
by
Routledge
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The purpose of this book is to address two principal questions: 'Was the concept of masculinity a topic of debate for the Victorians?' and 'Why is Victorian literature full of images of male deviance when Victorian masculinity is defined by discipline?' In his introduction, Dowling defines Victorian masculinity in terms of discipline. He then addresses the central question of why an official... Read more
Contents: Introduction: Victorian metaphors of manliness; Dickens, Manliness, and the myth of the Romantic Artist; Masculinity and its discontents in Dickens’s David Copperfield; Homosocial Bohemia in Thackeray’s Pendennis; Masculinity and work in Trollope’s An Autobiography; Masculine failure in Gissing’s New Grub Street; Conclusion: From Feminism to Gender Studies; Index.
Biography
Andrew Dowling
