01620 a2200253 4500 1138619981 20250317100409.0 250312042021GB eng 9781138619982 Taylor & Francis GBP 41.99 BB 01 eng DSBF thema DSBF bic LIT000000 bisac LIT020000 bisac 823.8 bisac Margaret Markwick New Men in Trollope's Novels Rewriting the Victorian Male 1 Oxford Routledge 20210331 228 p 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. Beginning with an evaluation of the evidence for cultural determinations of masculinity during Trollope's times, the author sets the stage with a discussion of the religious, philosophical, and educational influences that informed the evolution of Trollope's personal views of masculinity as he grew from boyhood into later manhood. Her treatment of his novels, drawing on a wide selection from across the oevre, shows that sensitive examination of Trollope's texts discovers him advancing a startlingly modern model of manhood under a veneer of conformity. Trollope's independent views on child-rearing, education, courtship, marriage, parenthood, and gay men are also discussed within the context of Victorian culture in this witty, original, and immensely knowledgeable study of Victorian masculinity. 2112 2112