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This study uses popular literature to offer a fresh account of Victorian manliness as it was transformed by imperial and colonial politics.

This work examines a sequence of crisis in 19th-century print culture in order to offer an original narrative of what it meant, and what it could have meant to be a Victorian novelist. Combining literary sociology and close readings, the book provides an innovative history of the material pressures and rhetorical struggles that produced, and ultimately shattered the Victorian's understanding of their great novelists.

At the end of the nineteenth century, the zenith of its imperial chauvinism and jingoistic fervour, Britain's empire was bolstered by a surprising new ideal of manliness, one that seemed less English than foreign, less concerned with moral development than perpetual competition, less civilized than savage. This study examines the revision of manly ideals in relation to an ideological upheaval whereby the liberal imperialism of Gladstone was eclipsed by the New Imperialism of Disraeli and his successors. Analyzing such popular genres as lost world novels, school stories, and early science...

Combining literary sociology and close readings, this work provides an innovative history of the material pressures and rhetorical struggles that produced, and ultimately shattered the Victorian's understanding of their great novelists.