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Divided Men: The Masculinity/Marriage Dilemma In The Novels Of George Eliot, Danny Sexton
Divided Men: The Masculinity/Marriage Dilemma In The Novels Of George Eliot, Danny Sexton
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Studies of Victorian masculinities have been primarily concerned with how men defined and were defined within the public sphere. This limited focus has ignored their private and domestic lives, itself an exemplification of the separate sphere theory. This dissertation explores what I called the masculinity/ marriage dilemma, a situation in which men feel that they must choose between a public life and a private one. George Eliot's male characters are divided, feeling themselves pulled in what they perceived as two different routes towards manhood. Related to this predicament are issues of power, particularly between men and women, men and other …