Kevin Killeen
Ashgate
Hardback
256

New Men in Trollope's Novels challenges the popular construction of Victorian men as patriarchal despots and suggests that hands-on fatherhood may have been a nineteenth-century norm. Markwick's immensely knowledgeable original and witty book gives us a Trollope whose independent views on child-rearing education courtship marriage parenthood and gay men anticipate the 'new' man of the 1990s by more than a hundred years.