Manliness in Britain, 1760–1900 [[electronic resource] ] : Bodies, emotion, and material culture

• Autore: Begiato Joanne
• Pubblicazione: [S.l.], : MANCHESTER UNIV PRESS, 2020
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Disciplina: 305.31094109034
• Soggetto topico: Human body - Great Britain - History - 18th century; Human body - Great Britain - History - 19th century; Masculinity - Great Britain - History - 18th century; Masculinity - Great Britain - History - 19th century; Material culture - Great Britain - History - 18th century; Material culture - Great Britain - History - 19th century
• Soggetto non controllato: Bodies; Desire; Emotions; Gender; Manliness; Masculinity; Material Culture; Unmanliness; Working-class men; long nineteenth century
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book offers an innovative account of manliness in Britain between 1760 and 1900. Using diverse textual, visual and material culture sources, it shows that masculinities were produced and disseminated through men's bodies -often working-class ones - and the emotions and material culture associated with them. The book analyses idealised men who stimulated desire and admiration, including virile boxers, soldiers, sailors and blacksmiths, brave firemen and noble industrial workers. It also investigates unmanly men, such as drunkards, wife-beaters and masturbators, who elicited disgust and aversion. Unusually, Manliness in Britain runs from the eras of feeling, revolution and reform to those of militarism, imperialism, representative democracy and mass media, periods often dealt with separately by historians of masculinities.
• Titolo autorizzato: Manliness in Britain, 1760–1900
• ISBN: 1-5261-5204-5; 1-5261-2858-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910793908103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in design and material culture.