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

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

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Series: Global Masculinities

Literary CriticismGeneral Gender Studies

ISBN10: 0230391834
ISBN13: 9780230391833
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Jun 27 2012
Pages: 191
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.60
Language: English
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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