Becoming the gentleman: british literature and the invention of modern masculinity, 1660–1815
Auteur :
Solinger, J.
Éditeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN :
9781349351763
Date de publication :
27 juin 2012
Dimensions :
21,6 x 14,0 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.