The Victorian Novel and Masculinity

Sara Lodge, University of St Andrews, UK Chris Louttit, Radboud University, Netherlands Natalie McKnight, Boston University, USA Shelley Trower, University of Roehampton, UK Richard Nemesvari, St Francis Xavier University, Canada Jane Thomas, University of Hull, UK Phillip Mallett, University of St Andrews, UK Emma Sutton, University of St Andrews, UK Linda M. Shires, Yeshiva University, USA

Preface Notes on the contributors 1. Masculinity, Power and Play in the Work of the Brontës; Sara Lodge 2. Working-Class Masculinity and the Victorian Novel; Chris Louttit 3. Dickens and Masculinity: the Necessity of the Nurturing Male; Natalie McKnight 4. Tomboys and Girly Boys in George Eliot's Early Fiction; Shelley Trower 5. Manful Assertions: Affect, Domesticity and Class Status Anxiety in East Lynne and Aurora Floyd; Richard Nemesvari 6. Growing up to be a man: Thomas Hardy and Masculinity; Jane Thomas 7. Masculinity, Imperialism and the Novel; Phillip Mallett 8. Aestheticism, Resistance and the Realist Novel: Marius and Masculinity; Emma Sutton 9. Conrad's Theatre of Masculinities; Linda M. Shires Index