Introduction -- Part I. The Byronic Hero in the Domestic Novel. One. A Home at Sea: Piracy in Lord Byron's The Corsair and Jane Austen's Persuasion; Two. A House Fit for a Lady: Lord Byron's Manfred and Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights; Three. Bad Romancers: Domestic Enclosures in George Eliot's Middlemarch and H. Rider Haggard's She -- Part II. The Rhetoric of Romance Masculinity. Four. A Secret History: The Byronic Hero in Charles Dickens's David Copperfield; Five. "Hey you, there!" Transforming Dickens's Domestic Masculinity into Romance Masculinity in Stevenson's Treasure Island; Six. Being Home: The Schizophrenic Enclosure as Dr. Jekyll and Dorian Gray; Seven. Writing the Rebel into Shape: Schizophrenia as Form in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sign of Four and E.W. Hornung's Raffles Stories; Eight. The Double Event: Romance Masculinity in Rudyard Kipling's Kim, Baden-Powell, and the Boy Scouts -- Conclusion: Romance Masculinity and Contemporary Masculinity.
Summary:
"From action movies, video games to sports culture, modern masculinity is intrinsically associated with violent competition. This legacy has its roots in the 19th-century Romantic figure of the Byronic hero--the ideal Victorian male. His silhouette can be traced through the works of Lord Byron, Jane Austen, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling and Oscar Wilde"-- Provided by publisher.
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