Manliness and the Male Novelist in Victorian Literature

ISBN-13: 9780754603801 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 148 str.

Andrew Dowling

Opis

By analyzing how Victorian literary texts both reveal and reconcile historical anxieties about the meaning of manliness, Dowling argues that masculinity is a complex construction rather than a natural given.

Spis treści

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.

O autorze

Andrew Dowling