New Men in Trollope's Novels: Rewriting the Victorian Male

ISBN-13: 9780815390671 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 228 str.

Margaret Markwick

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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.

O autorze

Margaret Markwick