The New Man, Masculinity and Marriage in the Victorian Novel

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-367-87598-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 360 g

Reihe: Gender and Genre

By tracing the rise of the New Man alongside novelistic changes in the representations of marriage, MacDonald shows how this figure encouraged Victorian writers to reassess masculine behaviour and to re-imagine the marriage plot in light of wider social changes. She finds examples in novels by Dickens, Anne Brontë, George Eliot and George Gissing.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Macdonald, Tara

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Middle-Class Manliness and the Dickensian Gentleman 2. Healing Masculinity in Mid-century Fiction 3. Doctors, Dandies and New Man in New Woman Fiction 4. The Retreat of the New Man at the Fin de Siecle 5. Sympathy, Suffering and Schreiner's Colonial New Men Conclusion Works Cited

Über Autor(innen)

Tara MacDonald is Assistant Professor of Literature at the University of Idaho, USA.