Masculinity and the New Imperialism - Rewriting Manhood in British Popular Literature, 1870-1914

This study uses popular literature to offer a fresh account of Victorian manliness as it was transformed by imperial and colonial politics.

List of contents

Introduction: better men; 1. Gunga Din and other better men: the burden of imperial manhood in Kipling's verse; 2. Cultural cross-dressing and the politics of masculine performance; 3. Piracy, play, and the boys who wouldn't grow up; 4. In statu pupillari: schoolboys, savages, and colonial authority; 5. Barbarism and the lost worlds of masculinity; 6. Mummies, marriage, and the occupation of Egypt; 7. Fitter men: H. G. Wells and the impossible future of masculinity; Bibliography.

About the author

Bradley Deane is Associate Professor of English and Morse-Alumni Distinguished University Teaching Professor at the University of Minnesota. He is author of The Making of the Victorian Novelist (2003). Work for this book was supported by a grant from the National Endowment of the Humanities.

Summary

Bradley Deane explores popular literature of the late Victorian and Edwardian eras to reveal how imperial politics reshaped ideals of manliness. Deane's analysis of texts, by writers including Kipling, Conrad and Conan Doyle, also reveals how these new ideals reinforced and propagated the politics of the New Imperialism.

Product details

• Authors: Bradley Deane, Bradley (University of Minnesota) Deane, Deane Bradley
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.03.2017
• EAN: 9781107692473
• ISBN: 978-1-107-69247-3
• No. of pages: 290
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteent; Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
• Subjects: Education and learning > Schoolbooks, general education schools; Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Literature & literary studies, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Gender studies, gender groups, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Educational: English Literature, C 1900 - C 1914