The Victorian Novel and Masculinity - by P Mallett (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br> "'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 Brontèe; 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"<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>What did it mean, in the rapidly changing world of Victorian England, to 'be a man'? In essays written specially for this volume, nine distinguished scholars from Britain and the USA show how Victorian novelists from the Brontës to Conrad sought to discover what made men, what broke them, and what restored them.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"The goal of the collection is to present the 'matrix of culturally and historically specific masculinities' available to scholars of the Victorian novel, with Victorian fiction as the ideal ground for 'exploring, questioning, and reinforcing values and beliefs' related to masculinities. ... the essays suggest several important points about the future of Victorian masculinity studies. ... It is a valuable resource for researchers seeking a clear and lively introduction to the most celebrated novelists of the era." (Melissa Shields Jenkins, English Literature in Transition, Vol. 59 (2), April, 2016)</p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Sara Lodge, University of St Andrews, UK Chris Louttit, Radboud University, Netherlands Natalie McKnight, Boston University, USA Shelley Trower, University of Roehampton, UK Richard Nemesvari, St Francis Xavier University, Canada Jane Thomas, University of Hull, UK Phillip Mallett, University of St Andrews, UK Emma Sutton, University of St Andrews, UK Linda M. Shires, Yeshiva University, USA
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