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Manliness in Britain, 1760-1900: Bodies, Emotion, and Material Culture

Manliness in Britain, 1760-1900: Bodies, Emotion, and Material Culture

Begiato, Joanne

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Design and Material Culture

Art HistoryGeneral DesignBritish History

ISBN10: 1526128578
ISBN13: 9781526128577
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Published: Feb 27 2020
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.70 Depth: 9.60
Language: English
This book offers an innovative account of manliness in Britain between 1760 and 1900. Using diverse textual, visual and material culture sources, it shows that masculinities were produced and disseminated through men's bodies -often working-class ones - and the emotions and material culture associated with them. The book analyses idealised men who stimulated desire and admiration, including virile boxers, soldiers, sailors and blacksmiths, brave firemen and noble industrial workers. It also investigates unmanly men, such as drunkards, wife-beaters and masturbators, who elicited disgust and aversion. Unusually, Manliness in Britain runs from the eras of feeling, revolution and reform to those of militarism, imperialism, representative democracy and mass media, periods often dealt with separately by historians of masculinities.

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