Masculinity in Four Victorian Epics - Machann, Clinton

Offering the readings of Tennyson's "Idylls of the King", Barrett Browning's "Aurora Leigh", Clough's "Amours de Voyage", and Browning's "The Ring and the Book", the author brings to bear the ideas and methods of literary Darwinism to shed light on the central issue of masculinity in the Victorian epic.