New Man of the House

Brian Gibson is a professor of English literature and film at Université Sainte-Anne in Nova Scotia.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsviiiPrefaceIntroduction: The Victorian Suburbs’ (Un)making of MasculinityChapter 1. As Pure as the Driven Fog: William Delisle Hay’s The Doom of the Great City (1880) and Grant Allen’s The British Barbarians (1895)Chapter 2. Pootering Him Back in His Rightful Place: George and Weedon Grossmith’s The Diary of a Nobody (1892)Chapter 3. Unsurelocked Homes: Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Adventure of the Yellow Face” (1893) and “The Adventure of the ­Bruce-Partington Plans” (1908)Coda: The Remaking of Suburban Masculinities in Early ­Twentieth-Century British FictionList of WorksLocations of Works in Suburban LondonChapter NotesBibliographyIndex

“Although the scholarship surrounding Victorian gender and sexuality, including the gendered spheres, is quite extensive, Gibson’s focus on suburban spaces vs. city dwellings makes this book both original and relevant. By exploring the changing perceptions of British masculinity in relation to the movement away from the city, the author raises significant questions concerning the impact of the domestic on the new ways of perceiving ‘manliness.’”—Jennifer Beauvais, author,Domesticated Bachelors and Femininity in Victorian Novels