The Victorian Male Body /

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

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 Vi...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.) :; 5 B/W illustrations
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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

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