Becoming the Gentleman : British Literature and the Invention of Modern Masculinity, 1660-1815
ISBN: 9780230391840
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Palgrave Macmillan
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Subjects: Social Science;

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.

Jason D. Solinger is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Mississippi, USA.

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