The Byronic Hero and the Rhetoric of Masculinity in the 19th Century British Novel
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-6228-2 (ISBN)
Where does the violence at the heart of modern masculinity come from? From action movies to video games to sports culture, why is so much about being a man connected to violent competition? The story of the marketing of masculinity - whether as a lone hero or as a devoted husband--is the story of the Byronic Hero's journey through the nineteenth century. The Byronic hero's history is traced through authors as different as Lord Byron and Jane Austen, George Eliot and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling and Oscar Wilde. Much more than a literary genealogy, the history of the Byronic hero and its heir, romance masculinity, outlines the radical changes nineteenth and early twentieth-century masculinity undergoes during the rise of the middle-class, the upheavals of industrialization, the demands of global competition, and finally the price of empire. From political and sexual revolutionary in the Regency, to ideal Victorian husband, to a weaponized servant of the state in the years running up to World War I, the Byronic hero and its afterlife as a romance masculinity are still with us in more ways than just action heroes like Sherlock Holmes and James Bond. It tells us something about what makes men - men.
D. Michael Jones teaches British Literature at East Tennessee State University. He lives in Morristown, Tennessee, USA.
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
Erscheinungsdatum | 01.02.2017 |
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Verlagsort | Jefferson, NC |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 270 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4766-6228-2 / 1476662282 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4766-6228-2 / 9781476662282 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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