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Manly Leaders in Nineteenth-Century British Literature

By Daniela Garofalo

Manly Leaders in Nineteenth-Century British Literature Social Sciences

Manly Leaders in Nineteenth-Century British Literature

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Examines fantasies of charismatic, virile leaders in British literature from the 1790s to the 1840s.From the 1790s to the 1840s, the fear that Britain had become too effeminate to protect itself against the anarchic forces unleashed by the French Revolution produced in many British writers of the period a desire to portray strong leaders who could control the democratic and commercial forces of modernization. While it is commonplace in Romantic studies to emphasize that Romantic writers are interested in the solitary genius or hero who separates himself from the community to pursue his own creative visions, Daniela Garofalo argues instead that Romantic and early Victorian writers are interested in charismatic males-military heroes, tyrants, kings, and captains of industry-who organize modern political and economic communities, sometimes by example, and sometimes by direct engagement. Reading works by William Godwin, William Wordsworth, Jane Austen, Lord Byron, William Hazlitt, Thomas Carlyle, and Charlotte Brontë, Garofalo shows how these leaders, endowed with an inherent virility rather than simply inherited rank, legitimize hierarchy anew for an age suffering from a crisis of authority.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
226
Release Date:
2009-01-08
Publication Date:
2009-01-08
Publisher:
SUNY Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0791473589
ISBN13:
9780791473580
Weight:
374 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
13 cm
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