TY - BOOK AU - Gopinath,Praseeda ED - Project Muse. TI - Scarecrows of Chivalry: English Masculinities after Empire SN - 9780813933832 AV - PR478.M34 G67 2013 U1 - 820.9/00914 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Charlottesville, Virginia PB - University of Virginia Press KW - Chivalry in literature KW - Masculinity in literature KW - English literature KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - 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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780813933832/ ER -