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Becoming the Gentleman: British Literature and Invention of Modern Masculinity, 1660-1815
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Becoming the Gentleman: British Literature and Invention of Modern Masculinity, 1660-1815
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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.