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A man's place : masculinity and the middle-class home in Victorian England /
"John Tosh shows how profoundly men's lives were conditioned by the Victorian ideal, and how they negotiated its many contradictions." "Tosh begins by looking at the experience of boyhood, married life, sex and fatherhood in the early decades of the nineteenth century - illustrat...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Government Document Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New Haven [Conn.] :
Yale University Press,
©1999.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Preconditions. Middle-class household ; Ideal of domesticity
- Climax of domesticity, c. 1830-1880. Husband and wife ; Father and child ; Boys into men ; Convivial pleasures and public duties
- Domesticity under strain, c. 1870-1900. Decline of deference ; Flight from domesticity.