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Man's Estate - Landed Gentry Masculinities, 1660-1900 (Hardcover)
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Man's Estate - Landed Gentry Masculinities, 1660-1900 (Hardcover)
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Masculinity is an expanding area of gender history. Man's Estate is
the first book to focus on a particular social group, the English
landed gentry, and to cover a time span of several hundred years.
The authors move beyond the study of printed conduct literature,
which dominated earlier accounts, by examining the values expressed
in family correspondence in order to get closer to social
practices. Letters between parents, children, siblings, and other
relatives reveal the ways in which masculine norms were produced
through everyday interactions and judgements, and help to
reconstruct the subjective experiences of elite masculinity in this
period. Man's Estate concentrates on four important periods in the
life-course for the reproduction of these masculine values:
schooling, university, foreign travel, and marriage and family
life. These illustrate that there is only limited evidence of
sharp-edged differences in values between generations in these
families, and that these changes appear not to correspond to the
deep 'hegemonic shifts' so often emphasized in existing accounts.
French and Rothery suggest that the fundamental distributions of
power and authority within Gentry families remained fairly
constant. Conventional ideas of male honour, virtue, reputation,
and autonomy were remarkably tenacious, and the continued stress on
family heritage, dynastic traditions, and the future security of
the family patrimony acted as a brake on changes in the training of
young English gentlemen. The research is based on over 4,000
letters drawn from 19 landed families across England between c.
1680 and c. 1900, and is the result of a three-year research
project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
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