British Literature and the Invention of Modern Masculinity, 1660–1815
by
J. Solinger
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2012
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.