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9780230391833

Becoming the Gentleman British Literature and the Invention of Modern Masculinity, 1660-1815

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    9780230391833

  • ISBN10:

    0230391834

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2012-07-17
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

Becoming the Gentleman explains why British men and women in the long eighteenth century were haunted by the question of what it meant to be a gentleman. Supplementing recent work on femininity, this book not only identifies a corpus of texts that address masculinitymale conduct books, novels, poems and an entire magazine industryit also provides a corrective lens by historicizing a masculine figure that has been regarded as unchanging.

Author Biography

Jason D. Solinger is an assistant professor of English at the University of Mississippi.

Table of Contents

Gentlemen and their Knowledge of the World

The Politics of Alexander Pope's Urbanity

Popular Writing and the Promise of Gentility from The Connoisseur to Evelina

Austen's Fiction in the Age of Commerce

Walter Scott and the Gentrification of Empire

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