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Index
Preface
Introduction
“A peculiar commodity”
Key Elements of the Byronic Hero
“About Men”
Defining a Hegemonic Masculinity
Why Byronic Afterlife?
Part I. The Byronic Hero in the Domestic Novel
CHAPTER ONE
A Home at Sea
CHAPTER TWO
A House Fit for a Lady
The Trope of Shared Blood: Manfred in Wuthering Heights
The Ghosts of Two Rhetorics
A House Fit for a Lady: The Inside and Outside of Love
CHAPTER THREE
Bad Romancers
Money and Marriage
Romance Education
Domesticide
Part II. The Rhetoric of Romance Masculinity
CHAPTER FOUR
A Secret History
The Problem of Steerforth
The Object of Gratification
Being the Man: Rewriting Macbeth in David Copperfield
Being Gone as Romance Commodity
CHAPTER FIVE
“Hey you, there!”
The Long Depression and Romance Masculinity
“Hey you, there!” Great Expectations and Treasure Island
The Words of the Father
Romance Masculinity
Monetarists
CHAPTER SIX
Being Home
The Body Without Organs
Problems of Production
“The living death of his own soul”
CHAPTER SEVEN
Writing the Rebel into Shape
“Haughty and aristocratic”
Detecting the Totality
The Sepoy Rebellion
Conclusion: The Death(s) of A.J Raffles and the Ideology of Form
Comradeship
Romance Masculinity at War
CHAPTER EIGHT
The Double Agent
Cover Stories: Paranoia and Sportsmanship
The Creditor and Debtor
Language, Logic and Whiteness
The Cult of Romance Masculinity
Mafeking: “A spontaneous public celebration”
The Boy Scouts and Romance Masculinity
Two Kims: Cover Story as Representational Schizophrenia
Conclusion
Chapter Notes
Introduction
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Conclusion
Works Cited
List of Names and Terms
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