When is a Man a Man?: Masculinities in Crisis in Victorian by Anja Drautzburg

By Anja Drautzburg

males are allowed to cry. a minimum of within the novels of Anne Brontë and her sister Charlotte in addition to Elizabeth Gaskell. All 3 absolutely carry a front-row seat in British literary background. hence no matter what they wrote continues to be considered as consultant of the Mid-Victorian interval. Anja Drautzburg explores Mid-Victorian types and ideas of masculinity as defined through those writers. She addresses questions of gender stereotypes, Victorian conventions and the ability of the ladies authors' subversive voice. all of the tested novels oscillate among severe representations of manliness. yet why are males both gentle and female, or stone-cold and harsh within the eyes in their creators? And, most significantly, why are masculinities in crisis?

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