| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 191 pages) |
| Series |
Global masculinities |
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Global masculinities series.
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| Contents |
Gentlemen and their Knowledge of the World -- The Politics of Alexander Pope's Urbanity -- Popular Writing and the Promise of Gentility from "The Connoisseur" to "Evelina" -- Austen's Fiction in the Age of Commerce -- Sir Walter Scott and the Gentrification of Empire |
| Summary |
Becoming the Gentlemanexplains why British men and women in the long eighteenth century were haunted by the question of what it meant to be a gentleman. It argues that our modern conceptions of gender, class and labor came into view in the course of redefining masculine gentility. Supplementing recent work on femininity, this book not only identifies a corpus of texts that address masculinity-male conduct books, novels, poems and an entire magazine industry-it also provides a corrective lens by historicizing a masculine figure that has been regarded as unchanging. Becoming the Gentlemanidentifies this effort to redefine the gentleman as a struggle over cultural capital conducted discursively. A synthetic study of literary (e.g. Addison, Pope, Burney, Austen & Scott) and extra-literary texts (e.g. Locke, Adam Smith, and diverse instructional authors), the book will appeal to scholars and advanced students of history, literature, gender, education, and culture |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
English literature -- History and criticism.
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Men in literature.
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Masculinity in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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English literature
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Masculinity in literature
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Men in literature
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Englisch
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Literatur
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Männlichkeit Motiv
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Gentleman Motiv
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780230391840 |
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0230391842 |
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9780230391833 |
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0230391834 |
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