Becoming the Gentleman British Literature and the Invention of Modern Masculinity, 1660-1815
, by Solinger, Jason D.Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780230391833 | 0230391834
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 7/17/2012
Becoming the Gentleman explains why British men and women in the long eighteenth century were haunted by the question of what it meant to be a gentleman. Supplementing recent work on femininity, this book not only identifies a corpus of texts that address masculinitymale conduct books, novels, poems and an entire magazine industryit also provides a corrective lens by historicizing a masculine figure that has been regarded as unchanging.