Manliness in Britain, 17601900 - Bodies, Emotion, and Material Culture

Informationen zum Autor Joanne Begiato is Professor of History and Associate Dean for Research and Knowledge Exchange at Oxford Brookes University Klappentext This book focuses on men's bodies, emotions and material culture to offer a new understanding of masculinities in Britain in the long nineteenth century. Using objects as well as texts and images, it shows how idealised and ugly bodies, and the feelings they stimulated, helped convey ideas about manliness and unmanliness across society. Zusammenfassung This book focuses on men’s bodies, emotions and material culture to offer a new understanding of masculinities in Britain in the long nineteenth century. Using objects as well as texts and images, it shows how idealised and ugly bodies, and the feelings they stimulated, helped convey ideas about manliness and unmanliness across society. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Making manliness manifest: an introduction 1 Figures, faces, and desire: male bodies and manliness 2 Appetites, passions, and disgust: the penalties and paradoxes of unmanliness 3 Hearts of oak: martial manliness and material culture 4 Homeward bound: manliness and the home 5 Brawn and bravery: glorifying the working body The measure of a man: an epilogue Index

Product details

• Authors: Joanne Begiato, Begiato Joanne
• Assisted by: James Ryan (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9781526128577
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-2857-7
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Studies in Design and Material Culture; Studies in Design and Material
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837), DESIGN / History & Criticism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Men's Studies, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Material Culture, Social and cultural history, Gender studies: men and boys, Gender Studies: Men, C 1700 To C 1800