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The Victorian Male Body

The Victorian Male Body

Parsons, Joanne Ella
Heholt, Ruth

Hardcover

Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1474428606
ISBN13: 9781474428606
Publisher: Edinburgh Univ Pr
Published: Mar 28 2018
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.19
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

A bold study on the very epicentre of Victorian ideology: the white, male body
The Victorian Male Body examines some of the main expressions and practices of Victorian masculinity and its embodied physicality. The white, and frequently middle class, male body was often normalised as the epitome of Victorian values. Whilst there has been a long and fruitful discussion around the concept of the 'too-visible' body of the colonised subject and the expectations placed on women's bodies, the idealised male body has received less attention in scholarly discussions. Through its examination of a broad range of Victorian literary and cultural texts, this new collection opens up a previously neglected field of study with a scrutinising focus on what is arguably the ideologically most important body in Victorian society.

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