Dandies and Desert Saints : : Styles of Victorian Masculinity / / James Eli Adams.
A Choice "Outstanding Academic Book for 1996"While drawing on work in feminism, queer theory, and cultural history, Dandies and Desert Saints challenges scholars to rethink simplistic notions of Victorian manhood. James Eli Adams examines masculine identity in Victorian literature from Tho...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©1995 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (264 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Dandies and Prophets: Spectacles of Victorian Masculinity
- 2. "A Sort of Masonry": Secrecy and "Manliness" in Early Victorian Brotherhoods
- 3. Imagining the Science of Renunciation: Manhood and Abasement in Kingsley and Tennyson
- 4. Muscular Aestheticism: Masculine Authority and the Male Body
- 5. Gentleman, Dandy, Priest: Masks and Masculinity in Pater's Aestheticism
- Afterword
- Works Cited
- Index