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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...

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Main Author: Solinger, J. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Edition:1st ed. 2012.
Series:Global Masculinities
Subjects:
Sociology.
Literature.
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
British literature.
Literature, Modern—18th century.
Gender Studies.
Literature, general.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
British and Irish Literature.
Eighteenth-Century Literature.
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230391840
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