Sketching the New Man Out: Ellen Wood's Exploration of Victorian Masculinity

• Published in: Women's writing : the Elizabethan to Victorian period Vol. 28; no. 2; pp. 265 - 282
• Main Author: Costantini, Mariaconcetta
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Abingdon Routledge 03.04.2021; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: Ellen Wood; gender models; Masculinity; Roland Yorke; Victorian sensation

In ways similar to other sensation novelists, Mrs Henry (Ellen) Wood questioned some ideological foundations of the Victorian shaping of gender models. Besides exposing the discontents of women trapped into fixed roles, she interrogated models of Victorian masculinity to envisage the possibility of...