The New Man, Masculinity and Marriage in the Victorian Novel

Author	: Tara MacDonald
Publisher	: Routledge
Total Pages	: 240
Release	: 2015-10-06
ISBN-10	: 9781317317807
ISBN-13	: 1317317807
Rating	: 4/5 (807 Downloads)

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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 240 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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