A Genealogy of the Gentleman: Women Writers and Masculinity in the Eighteenth Century

by Mary Beth Harris

A Genealogy of the Gentleman argues that eighteenth-century women writers made key interventions in modern ideals of masculinity and authorship through their narrative constructions of the gentleman. It challenges two latent critical assumptions: first, that the gentleman's masculinity is normative, private, and therefore oppositional to concepts of performance; and second, that women writers, from their disadvantaged position within a patriarchal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1644533286
• ISBN13: 9781644533284
• Release Date: March 2024
• Publisher: University of Delaware Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher