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Defoe's writings and manliness : contrary men /

Defoe's Writings and Manliness is a timely intervention in Defoe studies and in the study of masculinity in eighteenth-century literature more generally. Arguing that Defoe's writings insistently returned to the issues of manliness and its contrary effeminacy, this book reveals how his wri...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Gregg, Stephen H., 1960-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2009.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 'Complete' men, trade and history
  • Born gentlemen and godly manliness
  • Crusoe, toil and temptation
  • A journal of the plague year: godly manliness and its limits
  • Singleton, friendship and secrecy
  • Colonel Jack and the perils of delusion.