New Man, Masculinity and Marriage in the Victorian Novel

Description:

By tracing the rise of the New Man alongside novelistic changes in the representations of marriage, MacDonald shows how this figure encouraged Victorian writers to reassess masculine behaviour and to re-imagine the marriage plot in light of wider social changes. She finds examples in novels by Dickens, Anne Bront©±, George Eliot and George Gissing.

subjects: English fiction, history and criticism, 19th century,  Men in literature,  Masculinity in literature,  Marriage in literature,  English fiction,  History and criticism,  History,  Masculinity,  Fiction