The Victorian Male Body / / Joanne Ella Parsons, Ruth Heholt.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Parsons, Joanne Ella,; Heholt, Ruth,
• MitwirkendeR: Baillet, Françoise,; Begiato, Joanne,; Beller, Anne-Marie,; Boyce, Charlotte,; Crossley, Alice,; Heholt, Ruth,; MacDonald, Tara,; Miller, Meredith,; Parsons, Joanne Ella,; Sweet, Ryan,; Younger, Alison,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture : ECSVC
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 5 B/W illustrations

A bold study on the very epicentre of Victorian ideology: the white, male bodyThe 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. This collection provides a wide variety of essays on different aspects of Victorian literature and culture, considering the variety of forms that this ‘idealised’ male body actually encompassed: fat, starving or disabled bodies, the ghostly figure, the ‘othered’ body, and the developing body of the schoolboy. The chapters in this book offer a detailed and clear reassessment of the Victorian concepts of manliness, masculinity, homosociality, morality, action, and adventure.Key FeaturesProvides a wide variety of essays on different aspects of Victorian literature and culture with subjects ranging from nature poetry, disability and pirates, fat and thin men, ghost soldiers and popular magazinesOpens up a neglected field of study with a scrutinizing focus on the ideologically most important body in Victorian societyAllows a re-evaluation of other areas of Victorian culture such as colonialism and debates about class, religion and scienceEnables a detailed and clear reassessment of the Victorian concepts of manliness, masculinity, homosociality, morality, action, and adventure

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Series Editor’s Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Visible and Invisible Bodies -- Part I Constructed Bodies -- Chapter 1 Violent Play and Regular Discipline: The Abuses of the Schoolboy Body in Victorian Fiction -- Chapter 2 Punishing the Unregulated Manly Body and Emotions in Early Victorian England -- Chapter 3 The New Man’s Body in Ménie Muriel Dowie’s Gallia -- Part II Fractured and Fragmented Bodies -- Chapter 4 Pirates and Prosthetics: Manly Messages for Managing Limb Loss in Victorian and Edwardian Adventure Narratives -- Chapter 5 Tuberculosis and Visionary Sensibility: The Consumptive Body as Masculine Dissent in George Eliot and Henry James -- Chapter 6 Monstrous Masculinities from the Macaroni to Mr Hyde: Reading the Gothic ‘Gentleman’ -- Chapter 7 Visible yet Immaterial: The Phantom and the Male Body in Ghost Stories by Three Victorian Women Writers -- Part III Unruly Bodies -- Chapter 8 Aesthetics of Deviance: George du Maurier’s Representations of the Artist’s Body for Punch as Discourse on Manliness, 1870–1880 -- Chapter 9 Suffering, Asceticism and the Starving Male Body in Mary Barton -- Chapter 10 Fosco’s Fat: Transgressive Consumption and Bodily Control in Wilkie Collins’ The Woman in White -- Chapter 11 Sensationalising Otherness: The Italian Male Body in Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s ‘Olivia’ and ‘Garibaldi’ -- Contributors -- Index