Fashioning masculinity : national identity and language in the eighteenth century / / Michele Cohen

• Autore: Cohen Michele <1944, >
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1996
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (190 p.)
• Disciplina: 155.3/32/0941; 155.3320941; 305.310942
• Soggetto topico: English literature - 18th century - History and criticism; National characteristics, English, in literature; Nationalism - Great Britain - History - 18th century; English literature - French influences; Women and literature - Great Britain; Nationalism in literature; Sex role in literature; Men in literature; Masculinity in literature
• Soggetto geografico: France In literature
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-170) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Book Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""CONTENTS""
• Sommario/riassunto: The fashioning of English gentlemen in the eighteenth century was modelled on French practices of sociability and conversation. Michele Cohen shows how at the same time, the English constructed their cultural relations with the French as relations of seduction and desire. She argues that this produced anxiety on the part of the English over the effect of French practices on English masculinity and the virtue of English women. By the end of the century, representing the French as an effeminate other was integral to the forging of English, masculine national identity. Michele Cohen examines the
• Titolo autorizzato: Fashioning masculinity
• ISBN: 1-134-84220-1; 0-415-75639-1; 1-280-33623-4; 0-203-20610-X; 1-134-84221-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910779970803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II