02397nam 2200601 a 450 991045245700332120200520144314.00-8139-3382-X0-8139-3383-8(CKB)2550000001102493(OCoLC)831625659(CaPaEBR)ebrary10672485(SSID)ssj0000836075(PQKBManifestationID)11474848(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000836075(PQKBWorkID)10997621(PQKB)11628365(MiAaPQ)EBC3444116(MdBmJHUP)muse25548(Au-PeEL)EBL3444116(CaPaEBR)ebr10672485(CaONFJC)MIL457834(EXLCZ)99255000000110249320121101d2013 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrScarecrows of chivalry[electronic resource] English masculinities after empire /Praseeda GopinathCharlottesville University of Virginia Press20131 online resource (286 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8139-3381-1 1-299-26584-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: English masculinities in transition -- 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 -- Epilogue: The postcolonial gentleman.English literature20th centuryHistory and criticismMasculinity in literatureChivalry in literatureElectronic books.English literatureHistory and criticism.Masculinity in literature.Chivalry in literature.820.9/00914Gopinath Praseeda1975-955169MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910452457003321Scarecrows of chivalry2160595UNINA