Overview

From action movies to video games to sports culture, modern masculinity is intrinsically associated with violent competition. This legacy has its roots in the 19th-century Romantic figure of the Byronic hero--the ideal Victorian male: devoted husband, sexual revolutionary and weaponized servant of the state. His silhouette can be traced through the works of authors like Lord Byron, Jane Austen, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling and Oscar Wilde. More than a literary genealogy, this history of the Byronic hero and his heirs follows the changes that masculinity has undergone in response to industrial upheaval, the rise of the middle class and the demands of global competition, from the Victorian period through the early 20th century.

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Author:   D. Michael Jones
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.263kg
ISBN:  

9781476662282

ISBN 10:   1476662282
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   06 March 2017
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Preface Introduction Part I. The Byronic Hero in the Domestic Novel One. A Home at Sea: Piracy in Lord Byron’s The Corsair and Jane Austen’s Persuasion Two. A House Fit for a Lady: Lord Byron’s Manfred and Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights Three. Bad Romancers: Domestic Enclosures in George Eliot’s Middlemarch and H. Rider Haggard’s She Part II. The Rhetoric of Romance Masculinity Four. A Secret History: The Byronic Hero in Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield Five. “Hey you, there!” Transforming Dickens’s Domestic Masculinity into Romance Masculinity in Stevenson’s Treasure Island Six. Being Home: The Schizophrenic Enclosure as Dr. Jekyll and Dorian Gray Seven. Writing the Rebel into Shape: Schizophrenia as Form in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sign of Four and E.W. Hornung’s Raffles Stories Eight. The Double Agent: Romance Masculinity in Rudyard Kipling’s Kim, ­Baden-Powell, and the Boy Scouts Conclusion: Romance Masculinity and Contemporary Masculinity Chapter Notes Works Cited Index

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D. Michael Jones teaches British literature at East Tennessee State University. He lives in Morristown, Tennessee.

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