Becoming the Gentleman explains why British citizens in the long eighteenth century were haunted by the question of what it meant to be a gentleman. Supplementing recent work on femininity, Solinger identifies a corpus of texts that address masculinity and challenges the notion of a masculine figure that has been regarded as unchanging.

Autorentext
Jason D. Solinger is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Mississippi, USA.

Inhalt
Gentlemen and their Knowledge of the World The Politics of Alexander Pope's Urbanity Popular Writing and the Promise of Gentility from The Connoisseur to Evelina Austen's Fiction in the Age of Commerce Sir Walter Scott and the Gentrification of Empire