Manliness and Masculinity: Making a Case against Traditional Norms

Ellen Moody

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[This document is a note to the author's Trollope's Comfort Romances for Men: Heterosexual Male Heroism in his Work — GPL.]

Anthony Trollope, The Macdermots of Ballycloran. Johnny Eames's physical instinctive aggression is justified by a moral aim: he saves an old man and Adolphus Crosbie is a "con-founded rascal" and "scoundrel"; see The Small House at Allington, 233, 364-72.

Among the heroes who are not financially independent, seeking a career in public, or convinced of the real usefulness of their efforts by the close of the book I instance Mark Robarts, John Grey and Plantagenet Palliser, Duke of Omnium. See, e.g., Trollope, The Duke's Children, 196 (The Duke to his young idealistic son: "It is the grind that makes the happiness ...").

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