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Becoming the Gentleman British Literature and the Invention of Modern Masculinity, 1660-1815

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.

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  • "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."@en
  • "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."@en
  • ""The question of what it meant to be a gentleman haunted Britons throughout the long eighteenth century. This period saw the gentleman emerge as the dominant persona of essayists, critics, and male conduct book writers as well as the ideal husband imagined by the authors of heroine-centered domestic fiction. In Becoming the Gentleman, Jason D. Solinger explains why this masculine ideal became a cultural obsession. What was at stake in the definition of the gentleman, he argues, was nothing less than a new kind of ruling-class male: a modern man whose knowledge of the world fit him for London parlors and imperial boardrooms. Examining such authors as John Locke, Alexander Pope, Frances Burney, Jane Austen and Sir Walter Scott, Solinger's account will appeal to literary historians as well as readers interested in the role nostalgia plays in forging the present."--Publisher's website."

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  • "Criticism, interpretation, etc"@en
  • "Criticism, interpretation, etc"
  • "Electronic books"@en
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  • "Becoming the gentleman : British literature and the invention of modern masculinity ; 1660 - 1815"
  • "Becoming the Gentleman British Literature and the Invention of Modern Masculinity, 1660-1815"@en
  • "Becoming the gentleman : British literature and the invention of modern masculinity, 1660-1815"
  • "Becoming the gentleman British literature and the invention of modern masculinity, 1660-1815"@en
  • "Becoming the gentleman British literature and the invention of modern masculinity, 1660-1815"
  • "Becoming the Gentleman"

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