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Scarecrows of Chivalry

Gopinath, Praseeda, 1975-

Scarecrows of Chivalry English Masculinities after Empire / [electronic resource] : Praseeda Gopinath. - Charlottesville, Virginia : University of Virginia Press, 2013. - 1 online resource (x, 274 pages )

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-260) and index.

Manly independent men: (de)constructing the English gentleman -- Out of place: Evelyn Waugh and the retreating gentleman -- An orphaned manliness: George Orwell and the Bovex man -- "One of those old-type natural fouled-up guys": posting the gentleman in Philip Larkin's poetry -- "Moulded and shaped": John Wain, Ian Fleming, and threshold masculinities -- Writing women, reading men: A. S. Byatt, Barbara Pym, and the post-gentlemen.

9780813933832 0813933838


Chivalry in literature.
Masculinity in literature.
English literature--History and criticism.--20th century


Electronic books.

PR478.M34 / G67 2013

820.9/00914