Conventional Masculinity and Unhappy Wives

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.]

In The Belton Estate Clara Amedroz almost chooses a wretched life because she is strongly attracted to Captain Aylmer's "position in the world," her "feeling that he was a man of influence," "a man of fashion," "always looks like a gentleman," "reads admired books," and has the glamor of an unknown private (possibly amoral) sexual life in London (10-11:126-33).

In addition, see Tosh's Manliness and Masculinities on "masculinity" as a term for discussing sexual norms among heterosexual men, 68-69.

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