Machine generated contents note: -- PrefaceNotes on the contributors1. Masculinity, Power and Play in the Work of the Brontës; Sara Lodge2. Working-Class Masculinity and the Victorian Novel; Chris Louttit3. Dickens and Masculinity: the Necessity of the Nurturing Male; Natalie McKnight4. Tomboys and Girly Boys in George Eliot's Early Fiction; Shelley Trower5. Manful Assertions: Affect, Domesticity and Class Status Anxiety in East Lynne and Aurora Floyd; Richard Nemesvari6. Growing up to be a man: Thomas Hardy and Masculinity; Jane Thomas7. Masculinity, Imperialism and the Novel; Phillip Mallett8. Aestheticism, Resistance and the Realist Novel: Marius and Masculinity; Emma Sutton9. Conrad's Theatre of Masculinities; Linda M. ShiresIndex.