Masculinity in Four Victorian Epics

Download or read book Masculinity in Four Victorian Epics written by Clinton Machann and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering provocative readings of Tennyson's Idylls of the King, Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh, Clough's Amours de Voyage, and Browning's The Ring and the Book, Clinton Machann employs the methods of literary Darwinism to shed light on the important issue of masculinity in the Victorian epic. Machann's central argument is that the drives and tendencies of human nature, as well as a writer's specific historical and cultural context, are important for understanding the Victorian long poem.