Victorian Masculinities: Manhood and Masculine Poetics in Early Victorian Literature and Art (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)

Applying the methods of feminist criticism to the study of masculinity, this book is the first to examine constructions of manhood in early Victorian literature and art. Sussman concentrates on representative major figures: Thomas Carlyle, Robert Browning, the Pre-Raphaelite, brotherhood and Walter Pater.Herbert Sussman is the author of 'Victorian Masculinities: Manhood and Masculine Poetics in Early Victorian Literature and Art (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)', published 1995 under ISBN 9780521465717 and ISBN 0521465710.