The New Man, Masculinity and Marriage in the Victorian Novel

The New Man, Masculinity and Marriage in the Victorian Novel
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Total Pages : 229
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ISBN-10 : 9781317317807
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Download or read book The New Man, Masculinity and Marriage in the Victorian Novel written by Tara MacDonald and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By tracing the rise of the New Man alongside novelistic changes in the representations of marriage, MacDonald shows how this figure encouraged Victorian writers to reassess masculine behaviour and to re-imagine the marriage plot in light of wider social changes. She finds examples in novels by Dickens, Anne Brontë, George Eliot and George Gissing.


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