Bachelors, Manhood, and the Novel, 1850-1925 (Hardcover)

Introduction; 1. Trouble in paradise: bachelors and bourgeois domesticity: 2. Sickness and the single man: sympathy, vicariousness, and the bachelor invalid in James and Bronte; 3. 'An artist and a bachelor': Henry James, discipleship, and mastering the life of art; 4. 'A way of looking on': male feminism and male fetishism in Conrad's Under Western Eyes; 5. 'The necessary melancholy of bachelors': melancholy, manhood and modernist narrative in Conrad, Ford and Fitzgerald; Bibliography.