Dandies and Desert Saints : Styles of Victorian Masculinity /

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Adams, James Eli
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1995.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Englisch ...
Manfred Mann
Letterkunde.
Engels.
Mannelijkheid.
Männlichkeit
Männlichkeit > Motiv
Mann > Motiv
Literatur
Identität
Geschlechterrolle > Motiv
Dandy > Motiv
Sex role in literature.
Patriarchy in literature.
Men in literature.
Masculinity in literature.
Intellectual life.
Gender identity in literature.
English literature > Male authors.
English literature.
Dandies in literature.
Aestheticism (Literature)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Men's Studies.
Écrits d'hommes anglais > Histoire et critique.
Hommes dans la litterature.
Dandys dans la litterature.
Rôle selon le sexe dans la litterature.
Patriarcat (Sociologie) dans la litterature.
Esthetisme (Litterature)
Identite sexuelle dans la litterature.
Masculinite dans la litterature.
Litterature anglaise > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Literature > history
Literature > english
English literature > Male authors > History and criticism.
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Englisch.
Great Britain.
Grande-Bretagne > Vie intellectuelle > 19e siecle.
Great Britain > Intellectual life > 19th century.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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.

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