Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-260) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: English masculinities in transition -- Manly independent men: (de)constructing the English gentleman -- Out of place: Evelyn Waugh and the retreating gentleman -- An orphaned manliness: George Orwell and the Bovex man -- "One of those old-type natural fouled-up guys": posting the gentleman in Philip Larkin's poetry -- "Moulded and shaped": John Wain, Ian Fleming, and threshold masculinities -- Writing women, reading men: A.S. Byatt, Barbara Pym, and the post-gentlemen -- Epilogue: The postcolonial gentleman.
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