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# From Gentlemen to Frontiermen: Masculine Formations in English-Language Fiction (1771--1930)

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**Published:** July 7, 2026  
**Original:** https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.03323  

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arXiv:2607.03323v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Masculinity in nineteenth-century fiction is not a single ideal but a field of competing scripts. Drawing on 150 British and American canonical novels from the txtLAB Novel450 corpus, published between 1771 and 1930, this paper examines the changing relative prominence of competing models of masculine authority. To focus the analysis on masculine characterisation, the study extracts male-character-centred text windows by using coreference resolutio

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