New Man, Masculinity and Marriage in the Victorian Novel

"This book sets out a clear thesis and supports it with sophisticated close readings and historical evidence. In expanding the field of masculinity studies by highlighting the critically ignored figure of the New Man, it joins Phillip Mallett's edited collection as a contribution to our understanding of the Victorian male." - Jacob Jewusiak, Review 19

• Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 Middle-Class Manliness and the Dickensian Gentleman; Chapter 2 Healing Masculinity in Mid-Century Fiction; Chapter 3 Doctors, Dandies and New Men in New Women Fiction; Chapter 4 The Retreat of the New Man at the Fin de Siècle; Chapter 5 Sympathy, Suffering and Schreiner’s Colonial New Men; Conclusion;