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Becoming the Gentleman

British Literature and the Invention of Modern Masculinity, 1660–1815
By:J. Solinger
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9780230391833
eText ISBN:9780230391840
Edition:0
Copyright:2012
Format:Page Fidelity

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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.