The Victorian novel and masculinity / edited by Phillip Mallett.

1. Masculinity, Power and Play in the Work of the Brontës / Sara Lodge
2. Working-Class Masculinity and the Victorian Novel / Chris Louttit
3. Dickens and Masculinity: the Necessity of the Nurturing Male / Natalie McKnight
4. Tomboys and Girly Boys in George Eliot's Early Fiction / Shelley Trower
5. Manful Assertions: Affect, Domesticity and Class Status Anxiety in East Lynne and Aurora Floyd / Richard Nemesvari
6. Growing up to be a man: Thomas Hardy and Masculinity / Jane Thomas
7. Masculinity, Imperialism and the Novel / Phillip Mallett
8. Aestheticism, Resistance and the Realist Novel: Marius and Masculinity / Emma Sutton
9. Conrad's Theatre of Masculinities / Linda M. Shires
Index.