Studies in the Novel, September 22nd, 2001
A good deal has been written recently about changing ideals of masculinity during the nineteenth century and the depiction of those changing ideals in the literature of the time. (1) The general picture now is that the flamboyant aristocratic model inherited from the eighteenth century was gradually rejected and supplanted by a restrained and virtous middle-class model. (2) Along with this shift in the ideal of manliness downward through the ranks of the middle classes was a corresponding attempt to revive a rural exemplar often associated with the upper ranks of the working class. Craftsmen...
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