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First full investigation of masculinities in Old Norse-Icelandic
literature. Compared to other areas of medieval literature, the
question of masculinity in Old Norse-Icelandic literature has been
understudied. This is a neglect which this volume aims to rectify.
The essays collected here introduce and analyse a spectrum of
masculinities, from the sagas of Icelanders, contemporary sagas,
kings' sagas, legendary sagas, chivalric sagas, bishops' sagas, and
eddic and skaldic verse, producing a broad and multifaceted
understanding of what it means to be masculine in Old
Norse-Icelandic texts. A critical introduction places the essays in
their scholarly context, providing the reader with a concise
orientation in gender studies and the study of masculinities in Old
Norse-Icelandic literature. This book's investigation of how
masculinities are constructed and challenged within a unique
literature is all the more vital in the current climate, in which
Old Norse sources are weaponised to support far-right agendas and
racist ideologies are intertwined with images of vikings as
hypermasculine. This volume counters these troubling narratives of
masculinity through explorations of Old Norse literature that
demonstrate how masculinity is formed, how it is linked to violence
and vulnerability, how it governs men's relationships, and how
toxic models of masculinity may be challenged.
The chemistry that occurs within confined spaces is the product of
a collection of forces, often beyond the molecule, and is not
easily ascribed to singular factors. There is a breadth of material
types that can define a confined space (e.g. macrocycles,
interlocked molecules, porous and non-porous crystals, organic and
inorganic/coordination cages) which are rarely discussed together.
Studies of supramolecular entities in the solution and solid states
are also not often compared in the same discussion, even though the
concepts are often similar or can be easily transferred between the
two. Chapters in this book combine classical host-guest chemistry
with catalysis, reactivity, and modern supramolecular chemistry.
They cover the many different technologies used to describe and
understand reactivity in confined spaces in one accessible title.
With contributions from leading experts, Reactivity in Confined
Spaces will be relevant for graduate students and researchers
working in supramolecular chemistry, both organic- and
inorganic-based, homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis, polymer
chemistry, and materials science in general.
These essays about British Methodists in the 18th, 19th, and 20th
centuries, explore the process of collective remembering. Three
distinct aspects are probed in this volume: how telling life
stories shaped identity for the Methodist movement; how remembering
lives was both contrived and contested; how historians' techniques
have exposed the process of memorialising and remembering in
Methodism.
An important new study of the life and ministry of the Anglican
minister and Evangelical leader Charles Wesley (1707-88) which
examines the often-neglected contribution made by John Wesley's
younger brother to the early history of the Methodist movement.
Charles Wesley's importance as the author of classic hymns like
'Love Divine' and 'O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing' is well known,
but his wider contribution to Methodism, the Church of England and
the Evangelical Revival has been overlooked. Gareth Lloyd presents
a new appraisal of Charles Wesley based on his own papers and those
of his friends and enemies. The picture of the Revival that results
from a fresh examination of one of Methodism's most significant
leaders offers a new perspective on the formative years of a
denomination that today has an estimated 80 million members
worldwide.
This volume is the first book-length study of masculinities in the
Sagas of Icelanders. Spanning the entire corpus of the Sagas of
Icelanders-and taking into account a number of little-studied sagas
as well as the more well-known works-it comprehensively
interrogates the construction, operation, and problematization of
masculinities in this genre. Men and Masculinities in the Sagas of
Icelanders elucidates the dominant model of masculinity that
operates in the sagas, demonstrates how masculinities and masculine
characters function within these texts, and investigates the means
by which the sagas, and saga characters, may subvert masculine
dominance. Combining close literary analysis with insights drawn
from sociological theories of hegemonic and subordinated
masculinities, notions of homosociality and performative gender,
and psychoanalytic frameworks, the book brings to men and
masculinities in saga literature the same scrutiny traditionally
brought to the study of women and femininities. Ultimately, the
volume demonstrates that masculinity is not simply glorified in the
sagas, but is represented as being both inherently fragile and a
burden to all characters, masculine and non-masculine alike.
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