Manliness in Britain, 1760-1900 (eBook)

Bodies, emotion, and material culture

Joanne Begiato (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
240 Seiten
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-2859-1 (ISBN)

Infos

This book focuses on men’s bodies, emotions and material culture to offer a new understanding of masculinities in Britain in the long nineteenth century. Using objects as well as texts and images, it shows how idealised and ugly bodies, and the feelings they stimulated, helped convey ideas about manliness and unmanliness across society.

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This book offers an innovative account of manliness in Britain between 1760 and 1900. Using diverse textual, visual and material culture sources, it shows that masculinities were produced and disseminated through men's bodies -often working-class ones - and the emotions and material culture associated with them. The book analyses idealised men who stimulated desire and admiration, including virile boxers, soldiers, sailors and blacksmiths, brave firemen and noble industrial workers. It also investigates unmanly men, such as drunkards, wife-beaters and masturbators, who elicited disgust and aversion. Unusually, Manliness in Britain runs from the eras of feeling, revolution and reform to those of militarism, imperialism, representative democracy and mass media, periods often dealt with separately by historians of masculinities.

Autor

Joanne Begiato is Professor of History and Head of History, Philosophy and Culture at Oxford Brookes University

Inhalt

Making manliness manifest: an introduction
1 Figures, faces, and desire: male bodies and manliness
2 Appetites, passions, and disgust: the penalties and paradoxes of unmanliness
3 Hearts of oak: martial manliness and material culture
4 Homeward bound: manliness and the home
5 Brawn and bravery: glorifying the working body
The measure of a man: an epilogue
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.2.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in Design and Material Culture
• Zusatzinfo: 25 black & white illustrations
• Verlagsort: Manchester
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Kreatives Gestalten
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Bodies • Desire • Emotions • Gender • Long Nineteenth Century • manliness • Masculinity • material culture • Unmanliness • working-class men
• ISBN-10: 1-5261-2859-4 / 1526128594
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5261-2859-1 / 9781526128591