Between profits and primitivism : shaping white middle-class masculinity in the United States, 1880-1917 / / Athena Devlin

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910461883503321
• Autore: Devlin Athena <1967-, >
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Routledge, , 2005
• ISBN: 1-135-87684-3; 0-203-49122-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (179 p.)
• Collana: Literary criticism and cultural theory
• Disciplina: 813/.509353
• Soggetti: American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism; Masculinity in literature; American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism; American prose literature - History and criticism; Middle class men in literature; Human body in literature; Men, White, in literature; Men in literature; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: First issued in paperback 2011.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-169) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Managing the middle-class male body in the age of efficiency -- The male body and the market economy : valuating Dreiser's Cowperwood -- Male hysteria and the gendering of the subconscious -- Shapes that haunt the dusk : masculinity and the supernatural experience in fiction.
• Sommario/riassunto: Between 1800 and the First World War, white middle-class men were depicted various forms of literature as weak and nervous. This book explores cultural writings dedicated to the physical and mental health of the male subject, showing that men have mobilized gender constructions repeatedly and self-consciously to position themselves within the culture. Aiming to join those who offer nuanced accounts of masculinity, Devlin investigates the various and changing interests white manhood was positioned to cultivate and the ways elite white men used ""their own,"" so to speak, to promote larger ag

Military orders, and articles, established by His Maiestie, for the better ordering and government of his Maiesties armie [[electronic resource] ] : With the oath which every souldier is to take. Also two proclamations, one against plundering and robbing. The other against selling or buying of armes and and [sic] horse. With instructions for musters and armes, and the use thereof. All which our said lawes, ordinances, and instructions, we straitly command to be read plainly and distinctly, by the Captaine, or other chiefe officer, to his owne company, at least once a week. And that the oath be administred in the respective quarters by the provost-mar-marshall [sic] Generall, assisted by the severall officers of each regiment: in the horse-quarters by sound of trumpet; and amongst the foot by beat of drum

• Record Nr.: UNISA996390757303316
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: [Oxford], : Re-printed by His Maiesties command at Oxford, by Leonard Lichfield, printer to the Vniversity., [1643]
• Descrizione fisica: [24] p. : ill
• Altri autori (Persone): Charles, King of England, <1600-1649.>
• Soggetti: Great Britain History Civil War, 1642-1649 Sources
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes: "By the King. A proclamation for the better government of His Majesties Army", a reprint of Steele 2309, issued November 25, 1642; and "By the King. A proclamation prohibiting all persons whatsoever, from buying or recieving horse or armes of any kind from any souldiers of His Majesties army", a reprint of Steel 2344, issued January 5, 1643.; Publication date from Wing.; Signatures: A-C⁴.; Frontis. = ill.; Variant: first leaf blank, no frontis.; Annotation on Thomason copy: "Feb: 23. 1642".; Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
• Sommario/riassunto: eebo-0018