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Acknowledgments ix Introduction: English Masculinities in Transition 1 1. Manly Independent Men: (De)constructing the English Gentleman 22 2. Out of Place: Evelyn Waugh and the Retreating Gentleman 41 3. An Orphaned Manliness: George Orwell and the Bovex Man 66 4. “One of Those Old-Type Natural Fouled-Up Guys”: Posting the Gentleman in Philip Larkin’s Poetry 89 5. “Moulded and Shaped”: John Wain, Ian Fleming, and Threshold Masculinities 117 6. Writing Women, Reading Men: A. S. Byatt, Barbara Pym, and the Post-Gentlemen 165 Epilogue: The Postcolonial Gentleman 204 Notes 219 Bibliography 245 Index 261 Contents ...

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