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



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Autore: Cohen Michele <1944-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Fashioning masculinity : national identity and language in the eighteenth century / / Michele Cohen Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1996
Edizione: 1st ed.
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  Visualizza cluster
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.: 9910817738203321
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