Victorian Masculinities : Manhood and Masculine Poetics in Early Victorian Literature and Art
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0521054664
ISBN-13
9780521054669
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 4th, 2008
Print length
240 Pages
Weight
362 grams
Dimensions
15.20 x 22.80 x 2.20 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
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Applying the methods of feminist criticism to the study of masculinity, this book is the first to examine constructions of manhood in early Victorian literature and art. Sussman concentrates on representative major figures: Thomas Carlyle, Robert Browning, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and Walter Pater.
Herbert Sussman's book explores ideas of manhood and masculinity as they emerged in the early Victorian period, and traces these through diverse formations in the literature and art of the time. Concentrating on representative major figures - Thomas Carlyle, Robert Browning, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and Walter Pater - Sussman focuses on areas of conflict and contradiction within their formulation of the masculine. He identifies the development of a 'masculine poetics' as a project which was for the Victorians, and continues to be, crucial to an industrial and commercial age. The book reveals manhood as an unstable equilibrium, and is responsive to the complex ways in which the early Victorians' masculine poetics simultaneously subverts and maintains patriarchal power.
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