Victorian Masculinities - Manhood and Masculine Poetics in Early Victorian Literature and Art

Klappentext This book is the first to examine constructions of manhood in early Victorian literature and art. Zusammenfassung Applying the methods of feminist criticism to the study of masculinity! this book is the first to examine constructions of manhood in early Victorian literature and art. Sussman concentrates on representative major figures: Thomas Carlyle! Robert Browning! the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and Walter Pater. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of plates; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The condition of manliness question: Thomas Carlyle and industrial manhood; 2. The problematic of a masculine poetic: Robert Browning; 3. Artistic manhood: the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood; 4. Masculinity transformed: appropriation in Walter Pater's early writing; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Herbert Sussman, Herbert (Northeastern University Sussman
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 04.02.2008
• EAN: 9780521054669
• ISBN: 978-0-521-05466-9
• Seiten: 240
• Serien: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature & Culture; Cambridge Studies in Nineteent; Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature & Culture
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft