1st Edition
New Men in Trollope's Novels Rewriting the Victorian Male
By Margaret Markwick
Copyright 2007
228 Pages
by
Routledge
228 Pages
by
Routledge
228 Pages
by
Routledge
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New Men in Trollope's Novels challenges the popular construction of Victorian men as patriarchal despots and suggests that hands-on fatherhood may have been a nineteenth-century norm. Beginning with an evaluation of the evidence for cultural determinations of masculinity during Trollope's times, the author sets the stage with a discussion of the religious, philosophical, and... Read more
Contents: Introduction: Trollope past and present; The making of Victorian manliness; Men in fiction; Telling masculinities; The preux chevalier: 'sans peur et sans reproche'; From birth to man's estate; Sex and the single man; Husbands, fathers, sons; Smoking rooms: bawdy jokes; Trollope editions used in this book; Select bibliography; Index.
Biography
Margaret Markwick
