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Manliness and the Male Novelist in Victorian Literature (Paperback)
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Manliness and the Male Novelist in Victorian Literature (Paperback)
Series: The Nineteenth Century Series
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The purpose of this book is to address two principal questions:
'Was the concept of masculinity a topic of debate for the
Victorians?' and 'Why is Victorian literature full of images of
male deviance when Victorian masculinity is defined by discipline?'
In his introduction, Dowling defines Victorian masculinity in terms
of discipline. He then addresses the central question of why an
official ideal of manly discipline in the nineteenth century
co-existed with a literature that is full of images of male
deviance. In answering this question, he develops a notion of
'hegemonic deviance', whereby a dominant ideal of masculinity
defines itself by what it is not. Dowling goes on to examine the
fear of effeminacy facing Victorian literary men and the strategies
used to combat these fears by the nineteenth-century male novelist.
In later chapters, concentrating on Dickens and Thackeray, he
examines how the male novelist is defined against multiple images
of unmanliness. These chapters illustrate the investment made by
men in constructing male 'others', those sources of difference that
are constantly produced and then crushed from within gender divide.
By analysing how Victorian literary texts both reveal and reconcile
historical anxieties about the meaning of manliness, Dowling argues
that masculinity is a complex construction rather than a natural
given.
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