- SKU: 9781526163639
- BARCODE: 9781526163639
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Manliness in Britain, 1760-1900: Bodies, Emotion, and Material Culture - Paperback
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by Joanne Begiato (Author)
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.
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Manliness in Britain offers a new account of masculinity in the long nineteenth century: more corporeal and material, more emotional, more cross-class, and less heteronormative than other studies. Using diverse textual, visual, and material culture sources, it shows that masculinities were produced and disseminated through men's bodies - very often working-class ones - and the emotions and material culture associated with them.
The book disrupts the chronology of nineteenth-century masculinities, since it stretches from the ages of feeling, revolution, and reform to those of militarism, imperialism, representative democracy, and mass media. It also queers these histories, by recognising that male and female desire for idealised male bodies and the gender attributes they represented was integral to the success of manliness. Imagined working-class men such as soldiers, sailors, and industrial workers were central to broader ideas of manliness and unmanliness. They not only offered didactic lessons for the working classes and made the labouring ranks appear less threatening, they also provide insights into the production of middle-class men's identities. The book shows that this melding of bodies, emotions, and material culture created emotionalised bodies and objects, which facilitated the conveying, reproducing, and fixing of manliness in society. As such, it will be vital for students and academics in the history of bodies, emotions, gender, and material culture.Author Biography
Joanne Begiato is Professor of History and Associate Dean for Research and Knowledge Exchange at Oxford Brookes University
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