Becoming the gentleman : British literature and the invention of modern masculinity, 1660-1815
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Becoming the gentleman : British literature and the invention of modern masculinity, 1660-1815
（Global masculinities）
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
1st ed
- : hardback
- : softcover
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-181) and index
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Description
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.
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 Sir Walter Scott and the Gentrification of Empire
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