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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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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.
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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.