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English Masculinities, 1660-1800 (Paperback)
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English Masculinities, 1660-1800 (Paperback)
Series: Women And Men In History
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This collection of specially commissioned essays provides the first
social history of masculinity in the 'long eighteenth century'.
Drawing on diaries, court records and prescriptive literature, it
explores the different identities of late Stuart and Georgian men.
The heterosexual fop, the homosexual, the polite gentleman, the
blackguard, the man of religion, the reader of erotica and the
violent aggressor are each examined here, and in the process a new
and increasingly important field of historical enquiry is opened up
to the non-specialist reader. The book opens with a substantial
introduction by the Editors. This provides readers with a detailed
context for the chapters which follow. The core of the book is
divided into four main parts looking at sociability, virtue and
friendship, violence, and sexuality. Within this framework each
chapter forms a self-contained unit, with its own methodology,
sources and argument. The chapters address issues such as the
correlations between masculinity and Protestantism; masculinity,
Englishness and taciturnity; and the impact of changing
representations of homosexual desire on the social organisation of
heterosexuality. Misogyny, James Boswell's self-presentation, the
literary and metaphorical representation of the body, the roles of
gossip and violence in men's lives, are each addressed in
individual chapters. The volume is concluded by a wide-ranging
synoptic essay by John Tosh, which sets a new agenda for the
history of masculinity. An extensive guide to further reading is
also provided. Designed for students, academics and the general
reader alike, this collection of essays provides a wide-ranging and
accessible framework within which to understand eighteenth-century
men. Because of the variety of approaches and conclusions it
contains, and because this is the first attempt to bring together a
comprehensive set of writings on the social history of
eighteenth-century masculinity, this volume does something quite
new. It de-centres and problematises the male 'standard' and
explores the complex and disparate masculinites enacted by the men
of this period. This will be essential reading for anyone
interested in eighteenth-century British social history.
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