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The Byronic Hero and the Rhetoric of Masculinity in the 19th Century British Novel (Paperback)
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The Byronic Hero and the Rhetoric of Masculinity in the 19th Century British Novel (Paperback)
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Where does the violence at the heart of modern masculinity come
from? From action movies to video games to sports culture, why is
so much about being a man connected to violent competition? The
story of the marketing of masculinity - whether as a lone hero or
as a devoted husband--is the story of the Byronic Hero's journey
through the nineteenth century. The Byronic hero's history is
traced through authors as different as Lord Byron and Jane Austen,
George Eliot and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling and Oscar
Wilde. Much more than a literary genealogy, the history of the
Byronic hero and its heir, romance masculinity, outlines the
radical changes nineteenth and early twentieth-century masculinity
undergoes during the rise of the middle-class, the upheavals of
industrialization, the demands of global competition, and finally
the price of empire. From political and sexual revolutionary in the
Regency, to ideal Victorian husband, to a weaponized servant of the
state in the years running up to World War I, the Byronic hero and
its afterlife as a romance masculinity are still with us in more
ways than just action heroes like Sherlock Holmes and James Bond.
It tells us something about what makes men - men.
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