New Man, Masculinity and Marriage in the Victorian Novel
New Man, Masculinity and Marriage in the Victorian Novel
About this book
By tracing the rise of the New Man alongside novelistic changes in the representations of marriage, MacDonald shows how this figure encouraged Victorian writers to reassess masculine behaviour and to re-imagine the marriage plot in light of wider social changes. She finds examples in novels by Dickens, Anne Bront©±, George Eliot and George Gissing.
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- OL Work ID
- OL21264129W
Subjects
English fiction, history and criticism, 19th centuryMen in literatureMasculinity in literatureMarriage in literatureEnglish fictionHistory and criticismHistoryMasculinityFiction