New men in Trollope's novels rewriting the Victorian male - Markwick, Margaret (Ashgate, 2007)
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-210) and index
Trollope past and present -- The making of Victorian manliness -- Men in fiction -- Telling masculinities -- The Preux Chevalier: ' sans peur et sand reproche' -- From birth to man's estate -- Sex and the single man -- Husbands, fathers, sons -- Smoking rooms: bawdy jokes
New Men in Trollope's Novels challenges the popular construction of Victorian men as patriarchal despots and suggests that hands-on fatherhood may have been a nineteenth-century norm. Markwick's immensely knowledgeable, original, and witty book gives us a Trollope whose independent views on child-rearing education, courtship, marriage, parenthood, and gay men anticipate the 'new' man of the 1990s by more than a hundred years