Male Adolescence in Mid-Victorian Fiction - George Meredith, W. M. Thackeray, and Anthony Trollope

Focusing on works by George Meredith, W. M. Thackeray, and Anthony Trollope, Alice Crossley expounds on the emergence of adolescence in the mid-Victorian period as a distinct category of identity and form of experience. She argues that male adolescence provides Thackeray, Trollope, and Meredith with opportunities for self-reflection and social crit