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The byronic hero and the rhetoric of masculinity in the 19th century british novel / D. Michael Jones.
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America) Available online
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America)- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jones, D. Michael, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824.
- Byron, George Gordon Byron.
- Heroes in literature.
- English literature--19th century.
- English literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (192 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2017.
- Summary:
- "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, Jane Austen, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling and Oscar Wilde"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- 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 Bronte'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 Event: Romance Masculinity in Rudyard Kipling's Kim, Baden-Powell, and the Boy Scouts
- Conclusion: Romance Masculinity and Contemporary Masculinity.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 6, 2017).
- ISBN:
- 1-4766-2745-2
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