Introduction: English Masculinities in Transition
1. Manly Independent Men: (De)constructing the English Gentleman
2. Out of Place: Evelyn Waugh and the Retreating Gentleman
3. An Orphaned Manliness: George Orwell and the Bovex Man
4. “One of Those Old-Type Natural Fouled-Up Guys”: Posting the Gentleman in Philip Larkin’s Poetry
5. “Moulded and Shaped”: John Wain, Ian Fleming, and Threshold Masculinities
6. Writing Women, Reading Men: A. S. Byatt, Barbara Pym, and the Post-Gentlemen