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Author:

MacDonald, Tara, author.

Title:

The new man, masculinity and marriage in the Victorian novel / by Tara MacDonald.

Publisher:

Pickering & Chatto,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

x, 218 pages ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Men in literature--History.
Masculinity--History.
English literature--19th century.
Fiction--History.

Notes:

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 si©·cle -- 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 Bront©±, 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 ; number 14

ISBN:

9781848934917
1848934912

OCLC:

(OCoLC)859298779

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)