Becoming the Gentleman British Literature and the Invention of Modern Masculinity, 1660–1815
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.
Keywords
Social ScienceGender StudiesLiterary CriticismSemiotics & TheoryEuropeanModern18th CenturyWomen's StudiesAnthropologyCultural & SocialRenaissance
2012Book
Author(s)Jason D. Solinger
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan US
ISBN9780230391833
LanguageEnglish
