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Becoming the Gentleman: British Literature and the Invention of Modern Masculinity, 1660–1815 (Global Masculinities)
$71.49
Brand: MACMILLAN
Author: Solinger, J.
Edition: 1st ed. 2012
Number Of Pages: 203
EAN: 9781349351763
Release Date: 27-06-2012
Languages: English
Binding: paperback
Package Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches
Details: 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.