The Victorian Male Body
Author | : Joanne Ella Parsons |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Body image |
ISBN | : 9781474428637 |
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Author | : Joanne Ella Parsons |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Body image |
ISBN | : 9781474428637 |
Author | : Joanne Ella Parsons |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2018-03-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1474428622 |
Imagines the end of anthropocentrism through contemporary science fiction and speculative realism.
Author | : Joanne Ella Parsons |
Publisher | : Edinburgh Critical Studies in |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781474428606 |
The Victorian Male Body examines some of the main expressions and practices of Victorian masculinity and its embodied physicality.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Andrew Mangham |
Publisher | : Liverpool English Texts and St |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1786940523 |
With the dawn of modern medicine there emerged a complex range of languages and methodologies for portraying the male body as prone to illness, injury and dysfunction. Using a variety of historical and literary approaches, this collection explores how medicine has interacted with key moments in literature and culture.
Author | : James Eli Adams |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2018-07-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1501720430 |
A Choice "Outstanding Academic Book for 1996"While drawing on work in feminism, queer theory, and cultural history, Dandies and Desert Saints challenges scholars to rethink simplistic notions of Victorian manhood. James Eli Adams examines masculine identity in Victorian literature from Thomas Carlyle through Oscar Wilde, analyzing authors who identify the age's ideal of manhood as the power of self-discipline. What distinguishes Adams's book from others in the recent explosion of interest in masculinity is his refusal to approach masculinity primarily in terms of "patriarchy" or "phallogocentrism" or within the binary of homosexualities and heterosexualities.
Author | : Ying Lee |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2016-05-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1135860327 |
This book examines representations of working-class masculine subjectivity in Victorian autobiography and fiction. In it, Ying focuses on ideas of domesticity and the male body and demonstrates that working-class masculinities differ substantially from those of the widely studied upper classes. The book also maps the relationship between two trends: the early nineteenth-century efflorescence of published working-class autobiographies (in which working men construct their identities for a broad readership); and a contemporaneous surge of public interest in "the lower orders" that finds reflection in the depiction of working-class characters in popular novels by middle-class authors. The book mimics this point of convergence by pairing three working-class autobiographies with three middle-class novels. Each chapter focuses on a particular type of work: domestic service, manual (not artisanal) labour, and literary labour (and the opportunities it offers for social advancement). Ying considers the specific ways in which classed and gendered consciousness emerges autobiographically and its significance in the writing of working-class subjectivity for public consumption. Then mainstream novels by Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell and Charles Kingsley are re-read from the perspective of these autobiographical pressure points.
Author | : Leah Price |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2012-04-09 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1400842182 |
How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading. When did the coffee-table book become an object of scorn? Why did law courts forbid witnesses to kiss the Bible? What made Victorian cartoonists mock commuters who hid behind the newspaper, ladies who matched their books' binding to their dress, and servants who reduced newspapers to fish 'n' chips wrap? Shedding new light on novels by Thackeray, Dickens, the Brontës, Trollope, and Collins, as well as the urban sociology of Henry Mayhew, Leah Price also uncovers the lives and afterlives of anonymous religious tracts and household manuals. From knickknacks to wastepaper, books mattered to the Victorians in ways that cannot be explained by their printed content alone. And whether displayed, defaced, exchanged, or discarded, printed matter participated, and still participates, in a range of transactions that stretches far beyond reading. Supplementing close readings with a sensitive reconstruction of how Victorians thought and felt about books, Price offers a new model for integrating literary theory with cultural history. How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain reshapes our understanding of the interplay between words and objects in the nineteenth century and beyond.
Author | : John F. Kasson |
Publisher | : Hill and Wang |
Total Pages | : 373 |
Release | : 2002-07-02 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1429930039 |
A remarkable new work from one of our premier historians In his exciting new book, John F. Kasson examines the signs of crisis in American life a century ago, signs that new forces of modernity were affecting men's sense of who and what they really were. When the Prussian-born Eugene Sandow, an international vaudeville star and bodybuilder, toured the United States in the 1890s, Florenz Ziegfeld cannily presented him as the "Perfect Man," representing both an ancient ideal of manhood and a modern commodity extolling self-development and self-fulfillment. Then, when Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan swung down a vine into the public eye in 1912, the fantasy of a perfect white Anglo-Saxon male was taken further, escaping the confines of civilization but reasserting its values, beating his chest and bellowing his triumph to the world. With Harry Houdini, the dream of escape was literally embodied in spectacular performances in which he triumphed over every kind of threat to masculine integrity -- bondage, imprisonment, insanity, and death. Kasson's liberally illustrated and persuasively argued study analyzes the themes linking these figures and places them in their rich historical and cultural context. Concern with the white male body -- with exhibiting it and with the perils to it --reached a climax in World War I, he suggests, and continues with us today.
Author | : David Waller |
Publisher | : Victorian Secrets |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2011-11-22 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1906469369 |