The Byronic hero and the rhetoric of masculinity in the 19th century British novel /

"From action movies, 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. His silhouette can be traced through the works of Lord Byron,...

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Main Author: Jones, D. Michael, 1976- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2017]
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505 0 |a Introduction -- Part I. The Byronic hero in the domestic novel. A home at sea : piracy in Lord Byron's The corsair and Jane Austen's Persuasion -- A house fit for a lady : Lord Byron's Manfred and Emily Brontë's Wuthering heights -- Bad romancers : domestic enclosures in George Eliot's Middlemarch and H. Rider Haggard's She -- Part II. The rhetoric of romance masculinity. A secret history : the Byronic hero in Charles Dickens's David Copperfield -- "Hey you, there!" : transforming Dickens's domestic masculinity into romance masculinity in Stevenson's Treasure Island -- Being home : the schizophrenic enclosure as Dr. Jekyll and Dorian Gray -- Writing the rebel into shape : schizophrenia as form in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sign of four and E.W. Hornung's Raffles stories -- The double agent : romance masculinity in Rudyard Kipling's Kim, Baden-Powell, and the Boy Scouts -- Conclusion : romance masculinity and contemporary masculinity. 
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