Scarecrows of Chivalry [electronic resource] : English Masculinities after Empire / Praseeda Gopinath.
Material type: TextPublication details: Charlottesville, Virginia : University of Virginia Press, 2013. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (x, 274 pages )ISBN:- 9780813933832
- 0813933838
- 820.9/00914 23
- PR478.M34 G67 2013
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.
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