The Victorian Novel and Masculinity

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xv

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2. Masculinity, Power and Play in the Work of the Brontës

   • Sara Lodge

   Pages 1-30

3. Working- Class Masculinity and the Victorian Novel

   • Chris Louttit

   Pages 31-50

4. Dickens and Masculinity: The Necessity of the Nurturing Male

   • Natalie Mcknight

   Pages 51-66

5. Tomboys and Girly Boys in George Eliot’s Early Fiction

   • Shelley Trower

   Pages 67-87

6. Manful Sensations: Affect, Domesticity and Class Status Anxiety in East Lynne and Aurora Floyd

   • Richard Nemesvari

   Pages 88-115

7. Growing up to Be a Man: Thomas Hardy and Masculinity

   • Jane Thomas

   Pages 116-150

8. Masculinity, Imperialism and the Novel

   • Phillip Mallett

   Pages 151-171

9. Aestheticism, Resistance and the Realist Novel: Marius and Masculinity

   • Emma Sutton

   Pages 172-188

10. Conrad’s Theatre of Masculinities

    • Linda M. Shires

    Pages 189-213

11. Back Matter

    Pages 214-217

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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.

• Literature
• Victorian literature
• gender studies
• masculinity
• the novel
• literary criticism
• Charles Dickens
• essay
• fiction
• Great Britain
• novel
• Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Thomas Hardy
• Victorian era
• British and Irish Literature

• University of St Andrews, UK

  Phillip Mallett

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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