Download or read book Becoming the Gentleman written by J. Solinger and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-06-27 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Becoming the Gentleman explains why British citizens in the long eighteenth century were haunted by the question of what it meant to be a gentleman. Supplementing recent work on femininity, Solinger identifies a corpus of texts that address masculinity and challenges the notion of a masculine figure that has been regarded as unchanging.