Scarecrows of chivalry English masculinities after empire /
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.