Joseph Valente, a professor of English at the University at Buffalo, is the author of Dracula's Crypt: Bram Stoker, Irishness, and the Question of Blood and other works.

"The Myth of Manliness is a work of exemplary scholarship and astute analysis. Fluently written and beautifully presented, it marks an original and very significant contribution to the study of Irish culture in this remarkably formative period."--Modernism/Modernity"Required reading for all interested in gender studies in both Irish and postcolonial contexts, and a landmark in the field of masculinity studies, Valente's book is a major, and lasting intervention."--Irish University Review "Joseph Valente's densely argued, path-breaking study of the cultural dynamics of manliness in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century Ireland and England deserves to be as widely read and discussed as his earlier seminal work on the queer dimensions of Joyce's writing. . . . Rewarding and challenging.  Valente's path-breaking contribution to understanding Joyce and his cultural context engages, in a committed, extraordinarily rewarding way. --James Joyce Quarterly

• CoverTitle pageCopyrightContentsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsPrefaceIntroduction: The Double Bind of Irish Manhood: Historical Backgrounds and Conceptual Horizons1. The Manliness of Parnell2. Afterlives of Parnell: Political, Cultural, Literary3. The Mother of All Sovereignty4. Brothers in Arms5. "Mixed Middling": James Joyce and Metrocolonial ManlinessEpilogue: "Manhood Is All": Yeats and Poetics of DisciplineNotesIndex

Joseph Valente, a professor of English at the University at Buffalo, is the author of Dracula's Crypt: Bram Stoker, Irishness, and the Question of Blood and other works.

"The Myth of Manliness is a work of exemplary scholarship and astute analysis. Fluently written and beautifully presented, it marks an original and very significant contribution to the study of Irish culture in this remarkably formative period."--Modernism/Modernity"Required reading for all interested in gender studies in both Irish and postcolonial contexts, and a landmark in the field of masculinity studies, Valente's book is a major, and lasting intervention."--Irish University Review "Joseph Valente's densely argued, path-breaking study of the cultural dynamics of manliness in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century Ireland and England deserves to be as widely read and discussed as his earlier seminal work on the queer dimensions of Joyce's writing. . . . Rewarding and challenging.  Valente's path-breaking contribution to understanding Joyce and his cultural context engages, in a committed, extraordinarily rewarding way. --James Joyce Quarterly

• CoverTitle pageCopyrightContentsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsPrefaceIntroduction: The Double Bind of Irish Manhood: Historical Backgrounds and Conceptual Horizons1. The Manliness of Parnell2. Afterlives of Parnell: Political, Cultural, Literary3. The Mother of All Sovereignty4. Brothers in Arms5. "Mixed Middling": James Joyce and Metrocolonial ManlinessEpilogue: "Manhood Is All": Yeats and Poetics of DisciplineNotesIndex

Joseph Valente, a professor of English at the University at Buffalo, is the author of Dracula's Crypt: Bram Stoker, Irishness, and the Question of Blood and other works.

"The Myth of Manliness is a work of exemplary scholarship and astute analysis. Fluently written and beautifully presented, it marks an original and very significant contribution to the study of Irish culture in this remarkably formative period."--Modernism/Modernity"Required reading for all interested in gender studies in both Irish and postcolonial contexts, and a landmark in the field of masculinity studies, Valente's book is a major, and lasting intervention."--Irish University Review "Joseph Valente's densely argued, path-breaking study of the cultural dynamics of manliness in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century Ireland and England deserves to be as widely read and discussed as his earlier seminal work on the queer dimensions of Joyce's writing. . . . Rewarding and challenging.  Valente's path-breaking contribution to understanding Joyce and his cultural context engages, in a committed, extraordinarily rewarding way. --James Joyce Quarterly

• CoverTitle pageCopyrightContentsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsPrefaceIntroduction: The Double Bind of Irish Manhood: Historical Backgrounds and Conceptual Horizons1. The Manliness of Parnell2. Afterlives of Parnell: Political, Cultural, Literary3. The Mother of All Sovereignty4. Brothers in Arms5. "Mixed Middling": James Joyce and Metrocolonial ManlinessEpilogue: "Manhood Is All": Yeats and Poetics of DisciplineNotesIndex