The Victorian Novel and Masculinity

2015. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-230-27232-3
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 217 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 3992 g

What did it mean, in the rapidly changing world of Victorian England, to 'be a man'? In essays written specially for this volume, nine distinguished scholars from Britain and the USA show how Victorian novelists from the Brontës to Conrad sought to discover what made men, what broke them, and what restored them.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mallett, P.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface Notes on the contributors 1. Masculinity, Power and Play in the Work of the Brontës; Sara Lodge 2. Working-Class Masculinity and the Victorian Novel; Chris Louttit 3. Dickens and Masculinity: the Necessity of the Nurturing Male; Natalie McKnight 4. Tomboys and Girly Boys in George Eliot's Early Fiction; Shelley Trower 5. Manful Assertions: Affect, Domesticity and Class Status Anxiety in East Lynne and Aurora Floyd; Richard Nemesvari 6. Growing up to be a man: Thomas Hardy and Masculinity; Jane Thomas 7. Masculinity, Imperialism and the Novel; Phillip Mallett 8. Aestheticism, Resistance and the Realist Novel: Marius and Masculinity; Emma Sutton 9. Conrad's Theatre of Masculinities; Linda M. Shires Index

Über Autor(innen)

Sara Lodge, University of St Andrews, UK

Chris Louttit, Radboud University, Netherlands

Natalie McKnight, Boston University, USA

Shelley Trower, University of Roehampton, UK

Richard Nemesvari, St Francis Xavier University, Canada

Jane Thomas, University of Hull, UK

Phillip Mallett, University of St Andrews, UK

Emma Sutton, University of St Andrews, UK

Linda M. Shires, Yeshiva University, USA