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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Victorian novel and masculinity
  name:
    name part: Mallett, Phillip
    name part: 1946-
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xv, 217 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: 'The old ideal of Manhood has grown obsolete,' wrote Thomas Carlyle in 1831, 'and the new is still invisible to us.' The essays in this volume explore the way Victorian novelists tried to answer the question of what it meant to 'be a man,' how manhood was learned, sustained, broken or restored and how the idea of the manly was shaped by class, schooling, region and religion, and by scientific and medical debate. Topics covered include the playful subversion of gender roles in the early writings of Charlotte Brontë, changing patterns of working class masculinity in London and Manchester, Dickens and the nurturing male, boyhood and girlhood in Eliot's The Mill on the Floss, the challenge to patriarchy in sensation fiction, manhood, imperialism and the adventure novel, masculinity and aestheticism, Hardy's reluctant, failed, or damaged men and Conrad's studies of men isolated or divided against themselves.
  table of contents: 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.
  note: edited by Phillip Mallett.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: English fiction
    temporal: 19th century
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Masculinity in literature
  subject:
    topic: Men in literature
  subject:
    topic: Gender identity in literature
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Social History
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM / General
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
  classification: PR878.M45 V53 2015
  classification: 823/.809352041
  identifier: 9780230272323 (hardback)
  identifier: 0230272320 (hardback)
  identifier: 2014038805
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 141022
    record change date: 20151106040433.0
    record identifier: in00003486279