Becoming the Gentleman explains why British citizens in the long eighteenth century were haunted by the question of what it meant to be a gentleman. Supplementing recent work on femininity, Solinger identifies a corpus of texts that address masculinity and challenges the notion of a masculine figure that has been regarded as unchanging.
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Becoming the Gentleman: British Literature and the Invention of Modern Masculinity, 1660-1815
Becoming the Gentleman explains why British citizens in the long eighteenth century were haunted by the question of what it meant to be a gentleman. Supplementing recent work on femininity, Solinger identifies a corpus of texts that address masculinity and challenges the notion of a masculine figure that has been regarded as unchanging.
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Becoming the Gentleman: British Literature and the Invention of Modern Masculinity, 1660-1815
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ISBN-13: | 9781349351763 |
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Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan US |
Publication date: | 06/27/2012 |
Series: | Global Masculinities |
Edition description: | 1st ed. 2012 |
Pages: | 191 |
Product dimensions: | 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d) |
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