The Victorian Novel and Masculinity

Book Overview

Preface Notes on the contributors 1. Masculinity, Power and Play in the Work of the Bront?s; 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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349323136
• ISBN13: 9781349323135
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 217 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"