Contents

Acknowledgments

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

Epilogue: The Postcolonial Gentleman

Notes

Bibliography

Index