Masculinity in the Work of Elizabeth Gaskell

by Meghan Lowe

Book Overview

This book is the first full-length study to focus on the representation of masculinity in Elizabeth Gaskell's novels. In examining Gaskell's understanding of masculine identity as a social construct and considering how her writing engages with Victorian ideologies of gender, this book demonstrates that Gaskell defies an essentialist approach to gender and instead explores masculinity over time, genre, region, and class, making it clear that masculinity...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030483991
• ISBN13: 9783030483999
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"