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Fashioning masculinity : national identity and language in the eighteenth century /
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 produc...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
1996.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 177 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-170) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0203298411 9780203298411 020320610X 9780203206102 9780415107365 0415107369 0415756391 9780415756396 1280336234 9781280336232 113484221X 9781134842216 |