Add to ORKGIn Victorian Masculinities, Herbert Sussman identifies the emergence of the "masculine plot" in mid-nineteenth century writing by male authors. The masculine plot, an alternative to the marriage plot's bourgeois domestic masculinity, provides a hero who eschews the threatening feminine realm and enters a world exclusive to men where he gathers male wisdom leading up to a test of his masculinity. Rewriting masculinity as the sublimation of male desire into productive labor in a solely male world and replacing the marriage bond with male-male relationships demanded that authors of the masculine plot unfold it somewhere outside of contemporary England. British writers displaced the masculine plot either geographically, historically, or both. B...
Studies of eighteenth-century British novels are typically centered on the alleged “rise” of the nov...
This dissertation explores Dickens characters that subvert dominant ideals of Victorian masculinity,...
Historically, the genre of adventure fiction most readily recalls books for boys and male heroes rat...
Late nineteenth-century Victorian adventure novels offer a complex depiction of manhood in relation ...
This project focuses on the late-nineteenth and early twentieth century depictions of success and fa...
The Victorian Fin de Siècle was a period characterized by decay, anxiety and identity fragmentation...
This dissertation examines the ways in which the unwilling male protagonists in some nineteenth- and...
Unmade and Unmanned Men: Reading Traumatized Masculinity in Late Nineteenth-Century British Adventur...
Recently, masculinity has garnered much attention from scholars of eighteenth-century literature and...
Both the heroine and the hero are vitally necessary to the marriage plot of the Romantic-era domesti...
The psychological realm in which late nineteenth century male romance takes place is not simply an a...
In Victorian fiction, the relationships between male characters and the animals with which they come...
From action movies to video games to sports culture, modern masculinity is intrinsically associated ...
The subject of this thesis is to investigate the representation of contrasting patterns of strong ve...
In this thesis, I argue that authors of the modern romance in late Victorian Britain used imperialis...
Studies of eighteenth-century British novels are typically centered on the alleged “rise” of the nov...
This dissertation explores Dickens characters that subvert dominant ideals of Victorian masculinity,...
Historically, the genre of adventure fiction most readily recalls books for boys and male heroes rat...
Late nineteenth-century Victorian adventure novels offer a complex depiction of manhood in relation ...
This project focuses on the late-nineteenth and early twentieth century depictions of success and fa...
The Victorian Fin de Siècle was a period characterized by decay, anxiety and identity fragmentation...
This dissertation examines the ways in which the unwilling male protagonists in some nineteenth- and...
Unmade and Unmanned Men: Reading Traumatized Masculinity in Late Nineteenth-Century British Adventur...
Recently, masculinity has garnered much attention from scholars of eighteenth-century literature and...
Both the heroine and the hero are vitally necessary to the marriage plot of the Romantic-era domesti...
The psychological realm in which late nineteenth century male romance takes place is not simply an a...
In Victorian fiction, the relationships between male characters and the animals with which they come...
From action movies to video games to sports culture, modern masculinity is intrinsically associated ...
The subject of this thesis is to investigate the representation of contrasting patterns of strong ve...
In this thesis, I argue that authors of the modern romance in late Victorian Britain used imperialis...
Studies of eighteenth-century British novels are typically centered on the alleged “rise” of the nov...
This dissertation explores Dickens characters that subvert dominant ideals of Victorian masculinity,...
Historically, the genre of adventure fiction most readily recalls books for boys and male heroes rat...