Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction: Victorian metaphors of manliness; Dickens, Manliness, and the myth of the Romantic Artist; Masculinity and its discontents in Dickens’s David Copperfield; Homosocial Bohemia in Thackeray’s Pendennis; Masculinity and work in Trollope’s An Autobiography; Masculine failure in Gissing’s New Grub Street; Conclusion: From Feminism to Gender Studies; Index.

About the Author

Andrew Dowling