Sheds new light on the narrative importance of the disabled man in Victorian literature and culture

This book focuses on men's bodies, emotions and material culture to offer a new understanding of masculinities in Britain in the long nineteenth century. Using

What Makes a Man, a Man? For centuries, being a man meant living a life of virtue and excellence. But then, through time, the art of manliness was lost. Now, af

Thomas Strychacz challenges the traditional wisdom that Hemingway fashions a quintessentially masculine style that promotes an ideal of stoic, independent manho

The Measure of Manliness is among the first books to focus on representations of disability in Victorian literature, showing that far from being marginalized or