Dandies and Desert Saints : Styles of Victorian Masculinity /
"While drawing on work in feminism, queer theory, and cultural history, Dandies and Desert Saints challenges scholars to rethink simplistic notions of Victorian manhood."--BOOK JACKET. "James Eli Adams examines masculine identity in Victorian literature from Thomas Carlyle through Osc...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Ithaca, N.Y. :
Cornell University Press,
1995.
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Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Dandies and Prophets: Spectacles of Victorian Masculinity
- 2. "A Sort of Masonry": Secrecy and "Manliness" in Early Victorian Brotherhoods
- 3. Imagining the Science of Renunciation: Manhood and Abasement in Kingsley and Tennyson
- 4. Muscular Aestheticism: Masculine Authority and the Male Body
- 5. Gentleman, Dandy, Priest: Masks and Masculinity in Pater's Aestheticism.