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English masculinities 1660-1800 / / edited by Tim Hitchcock and Michele Cohen



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Titolo: English masculinities 1660-1800 / / edited by Tim Hitchcock and Michele Cohen Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Oxon [England] : , : Routledge, , 2014
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (487 p.)
Disciplina: 820.9/352041
820.9352041
305.31094109033
Soggetto topico: English literature - 18th century - History and criticism
Masculinity in literature
English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism
Literature and society - Great Britain - History - 18th century
Literature and society - Great Britain - History - 17th century
English literature - Male authors - History and criticism
Sex role in literature
Men in literature
Altri autori: CohenMichele <1944->  
HitchcockTim <1957->  
Note generali: First published 1999 by Addison Wesley Longman.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of abbreviations; Notes on contributors; 1. Introduction; Part One: Sociability; 2. Sociability and misogyny in the life of John Cannon, 1684-1743; 3. Manliness, effeminacy and the French: gender and the construction of national character in eighteenth-century England; Part Two: Virtue and friendship; 4. The body of the friend: continuity and change in masculine friendship in the seventeenth century; The embrace; The table; The bed; The chamber pot; Gender and society; Bodily humour; Desire; Change
5. Homo religiosus: masculinity and religion in the long eighteenth century6. James Boswell's manliness; Boswell as 'man of dignity'; Boswell as 'pretty man'; Boswell as 'blackguard'; Conclusion; Part Three: Violence; 7. Reforming male manners: public insult and the decline of violence in London, 1660-1740; 8. Boys will be boys? Manhood and aggression, 1660-1800; Part Four: Sexuality; 9. 'Nothing is so secret but shall be revealed': the scandalous life of Robert Foulkes; 10. The majesty of the masculine-form': multiplicity and male bodies in eighteenth-century erotica; Part Five: Conclusion
11. The old Adam and the new man: emerging themes in the history of English masculinities, 1750-1850Further reading; Index
Sommario/riassunto: This collection of specially commissioned essays provides the first social history of masculinity in the 'long eighteenth century'. Drawing on diaries, court records and prescriptive literature, it explores the different identities of late Stuart and Georgian men. The heterosexual fop, the homosexual, the polite gentleman, the blackguard, the man of religion, the reader of erotica and the violent aggressor are each examined here, and in the process a new and increasingly important field of historical enquiry is opened up to the non-specialist reader.The book opens with a substantial introducti
Titolo autorizzato: English masculinities 1660-1800  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-317-88249-0
0-582-31919-6
1-138-14730-3
1-315-84031-6
1-317-88250-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910809387703321
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Serie: Women and men in history.