| Description |
x, 218 pages ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN |
9781848934917 hardback : alkaline paper |
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1848934912 hardback : alkaline paper |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-176) and index. |
| Contents |
Middle-class manliness and the Dickensian gentleman -- Healing masculinity in mid-century fiction -- Doctors, dandies and new men in new women fiction -- The retreat of the new man at the Fin de siècle -- Sympathy, suffering and Schreiner's colonial new men. |
| Summary |
Though the term 'New Man' was not coined until 1894, this study locates earlier examples throughout the Victorian era. In the novels of Charles Dickens, Anne Brontë, George Eliot and George Gissing, characters are identified who could be classed as prototypes of the New Man. By tracing the rise of the New Man alongside novelistic changes in the representations of marriage, MacDonald shows how this figure encouraged Victorian writers to reassess masculine behaviour and to re-imagine the marriage plot in light of wider social changes.--Provided by publisher |
| Series |
Gender and genre ; no. 14.
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| Library Class |
English E468.M3
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| Subject |
Men in literature -- History.
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Masculinity -- History.
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English literature -- 19th century.
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Fiction -- History.
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