Becoming the gentleman[electronic re...
Solinger, Jason D.

 

  • Becoming the gentleman[electronic resource] :British literature and the invention of modern masculinity, 1660-1815 /
  • Record Type: Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
    [NT 15000414]: 820.9/352041
    Title/Author: Becoming the gentleman : British literature and the invention of modern masculinity, 1660-1815 // Jason D. Solinger.
    Author: Solinger, Jason D.
    Published: New York : : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2012.
    Description: 1 online resource (xii, 191 p.)
    Subject: English literature - History and criticism.
    Subject: Men in literature.
    Subject: Masculinity in literature.
    Subject: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
    ISBN: 9780230391840 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 0230391842 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 9780230391833 (Cloth)
    ISBN: 0230391834 (Cloth)
    [NT 15000227]: Includes bibliographical references and index.
    [NT 15000228]: 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 -- Sir Walter Scott and the Gentrification of Empire.
    [NT 15000229]: Becoming the Gentlemanexplains why British men and women in the long eighteenth century were haunted by the question of what it meant to be a gentleman. It argues that our modern conceptions of gender, class and labor came into view in the course of redefining masculine gentility. Supplementing recent work on femininity, this book not only identifies a corpus of texts that address masculinity-male conduct books, novels, poems and an entire magazine industry-it also provides a corrective lens by historicizing a masculine figure that has been regarded as unchanging. Becoming the Gentlemanidentifies this effort to redefine the gentleman as a struggle over cultural capital conducted discursively. A synthetic study of literary (e.g. Addison, Pope, Burney, Austen & Scott) and extra-literary texts (e.g. Locke, Adam Smith, and diverse instructional authors), the book will appeal to scholars and advanced students of history, literature, gender, education, and culture.
    Online resource: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230391840
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