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Manliness and the male novelist in Victorian literature / Andrew Dowling.

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Manliness and the male novelist in Victorian literature / Andrew Dowling.

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Manliness and the male novelist in Victorian literature / Andrew Dowling.

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Full title

Manliness and the male novelist in Victorian literature / Andrew Dowling.

Publisher

Aldershot, Hampshire ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2001.

Call Numbers

N823.80935/10

Record Identifier

74VKPEmv7Egl

MMS ID

991019659319702626

Language

English

Formats

Physical Description

Physical content

viii, 139 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Contents

1. Victorian Metaphors of Manliness -- 2. Dickens, Manliness, and the Myth of the Romantic Artist -- 3. Masculinity and its Discontents in Dickens's David Copperfield -- 4. Homosocial Bohemia in Thackeray's Pendennis -- 5. Masculinity and Work in Trollope's An Autobiography -- 6. Masculine Failure i...

Publication information

Publisher

Aldershot, Hampshire ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2001.

Place of Publication

England

Date Published

c2001.

More information

Scope and Contents

Summary

"The purpose of this book is to address two principal questions: 'Was the concept of masculinity a topic of debate for the Victorians?' and 'Why is Victorian literature full of images of male deviance when Victorian masculinity is defined by discipline?'" "By analysing how Victorian literary texts both reveal and reconcile historical anxieties abou...

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Full title

Manliness and the male novelist in Victorian literature / Andrew Dowling.

Authors, Artists and Contributors
Notes

General note

The nineteenth century series.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [122]-130) and index.

Contextual Information

Date Copyright

c2001.

Identifiers

Primary Identifiers

Call Numbers

N823.80935/10

Record Identifier

74VKPEmv7Egl

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKPEmv7Egl

Other Identifiers

ISBN

0754603806

9780754603801

DDC

823.809352041

MMS ID

991019659319702626

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