Becoming the Gentleman by J. Solinger, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

Becoming the Gentleman explains why British citizens in the long eighteenth century were haunted by the question of what it meant to be a gentleman. Supplementing recent work on femininity, Solinger identifies a corpus of texts that address masculinity and challenges the notion of a masculine figure that has been regarded as unchanging. | Becoming the Gentleman by J. Solinger, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters