Manliness and the male novelist in Victorian literature /
Dowling, Andrew.
Manliness and the male novelist in Victorian literature / Andrew Dowling. - Aldershot, Hants. : Ashgate, 2001. - 139 p. : ill. - Nineteenth century series. . - Nineteenth century (Aldershot, England) .
"The purpose of this book is to address two principal questions: 'Was the concept of masculinity a topic of debate for the Victorians?' and 'Why is Victorian literature full of images of male deviance when Victorian masculinity is defined by discipline?'" "By analysing how Victorian literary texts both reveal and reconcile historical anxieties about the meaning of manliness, Dowling argues that masculinity is a complex construction rather than a natural given."--BOOK JACKET.
9780754603801
English fiction--Male authors--History and criticism.
English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
Masculinity in literature.
Men in literature.
Manliness and the male novelist in Victorian literature / Andrew Dowling. - Aldershot, Hants. : Ashgate, 2001. - 139 p. : ill. - Nineteenth century series. . - Nineteenth century (Aldershot, England) .
"The purpose of this book is to address two principal questions: 'Was the concept of masculinity a topic of debate for the Victorians?' and 'Why is Victorian literature full of images of male deviance when Victorian masculinity is defined by discipline?'" "By analysing how Victorian literary texts both reveal and reconcile historical anxieties about the meaning of manliness, Dowling argues that masculinity is a complex construction rather than a natural given."--BOOK JACKET.
9780754603801
English fiction--Male authors--History and criticism.
English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
Masculinity in literature.
Men in literature.