Effeminate Years - Literature, Politics, and Aesthetics in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain

This book traces the development of modern ideas of masculinity and the political subject back to the Enlightenment period in Britain to show how the very concept of political agency was shaped by anti-effeminate ideas and beliefs. This study queers our understanding of the political subject, which is still the basis for debate and argument.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Effeminate Years
Chapter 1: "HERCULES, turn'd Beau": Charles Churchill's Satire
Chapter 2: Enlightenment Closets: Publishing Privacy
Chapter 3: Mobocracy: Public Opinion and the Free Press
Chapter 4: Bog Men: Celtic Landscapes during the Seven Years' War
Chapter 5: Effeminate Aesthetics and Backstairs Politics
Coda
Bibliography
About the Author

About the author

By Declan Kavanagh

Summary

This book traces the development of modern ideas of masculinity and the political subject back to the Enlightenment period in Britain to show how the very concept of political agency was shaped by anti-effeminate ideas and beliefs. This study queers our understanding of the political subject, which is still the basis for debate and argument.

Product details

• Authors: Declan Kavanagh, Declan W. Kavanagh
• Publisher: University Press Copublishing Division
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781611488241
• ISBN: 978-1-61148-824-1
• No. of pages: 268
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 234 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 544 g
• Series: Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850; Transits: Literature, Thought; Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850; Transits: Literature, Thought
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies