Global Masculinities: British Literature and the Invention of Modern Masculinity, 1660–1815

Solinger, J.

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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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2012-06-27

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780230391833

DOI: 10.1057/9780230391840

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 191