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040 _aNUSCL
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_dOrLoB-B
090 _aPR878
_bMas.D
100 1 _aDowling, Andrew.
_zDOW
245 1 0 _aManliness and the male novelist in Victorian literature /
_cAndrew Dowling.
260 _aAldershot, Hants. :
_bAshgate,
_c2001.
300 _a139 p. :
_bill.
490 1 _aNineteenth century series.
520 1 _a"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.
650 0 _aEnglish fiction
_vMale authors
_vHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aEnglish fiction
_y19th century
_vHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aMasculinity in literature.
650 0 _aMen in literature.
830 0 _aNineteenth century (Aldershot, England)
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_cBOOKS
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