The New Man, Masculinity and Marriage in the Victorian Novel

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-84893-491-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 517 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Macdonald, Tara

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• 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.