Conflicting masculinities : men in television period drama / edited by Katherine Byrne, James Leggott and Julie Anne Taddeo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Byrne, Katherine, 1978- editor.

Leggott, James, editor.

Taddeo, Julie Anne, editor.

Series:

Library of gender and popular culture ; 22.

Library of gender and popular culture ; 22

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Masculinity on television.

History on television.

Physical Description:

xxi, 298 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2018.

Contents:

Introduction p. 1 / Katherine Byrne and James Leggott and Julie Anne Taddeo

Conflicted Men p. 4

Men at Work p. 5

Warfare p. 7

The Female Gaze p. 8

Part I The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

1 The Masculine Economies of Banished p. 15 / James Ward

Masculine Economies p. 17

Violence and Sacrifice p. 22

Banished, Masculinity and Australian History p. 24

2 'I will not fight for my country ... for my ship ... my King ... or Captain': Redefining Imperial Masculinities in To the Ends of the Earth p. 35 / Mark Fryers

Empire, Masculinity and the Sea p. 36

This Ship of Fools is England p. 41

The Sea as a Philosophical and Nightmarish Space p. 42

Masculinity, Sexuality and the Sea p. 45

'I kill people without knowing it' p. 47

3 Television Costume Drama and the Eroticised, Regionalised Body: Poldark and Qutlander p. 52 / Gemma Goodman and Rachel Moseley

Masculinities and Male Bodies p. 54

Regional Identity and the Body p. 56

Colonised Territory: Looking at the Naked Male Body p. 62

Outlander: Body as Contested Territory p. 64

4 Power and Passion: Seventeenth-Century Masculinities Dramatised on the BBC in the Twenty-First Century p. 71 / Sarah Belts

Seventeenth-Century Drama on the BBC p. 73

Coming of Age p. 75

Passion p. 79

Interior and Exterior Masculinities p. 82

Part II Visions of the Nineteenth Century

5 A Post-Feminist Hero: Sandy Welch's North and South p. 91 / Sarah E. Fanning

'The Darcy Model': Andrew Davies's Pride and Prejudice p. 92

The Evolution of Post-Feminist Masculinities in the Televised Classic Novel p. 93

Moving Beyond Darcymania: A Hero in His Own Right p. 96

North and South (2004): Thornton's Re-inscription as a Post-Feminist Victorian Hero p. 98

Men as Men: Male Community p. 100

Wounded Masculinity: Male Emotion p. 101

Homosocial Bonding: John Thornton and Nicholas Higgins p. 104

Post-Feminism and the Father Figure p. 106

6 'Because my daddy would protect them': Ripper Street's Edmund Reid and the Competing Demands of Home and Public Lives p. 111 / Jessica Saxon

Losing His Home: Series One and Two p. 114

Regaining His Home: Series Three p. 115

Reid and Neo-Victorian Representations of Masculinity p. 117

Daddy/Detective p. 121

7 'Pleasure and pain, again and again' - Between Monstrosity and Inner Turmoil: The Representation of Masculinity in Penny Dreadful p. 127 / Caroline Langhorst

Introduction: 'Not a girl's heart. A man's heart' p. 127

'When you transform a life, you're making it anew': Penny Dreadful and Victorian Gothic p. 129

'For the monster is not in my face, but in my soul': The Portrayal of Conflicted Gothic Masculinity in Penny Dreadful p. 132

'You're a very young man. I've long since learnt that the truth is mutable': Troubled Father and Son Relationships p. 139

8 Pathological Masculinities: Syphilis and the Medical Profession in The Frankenstein Chronicles p. 146 / Katherine Byrne

Monstrous Doctors and the Legacy of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein p. 147

An Unlikely 'Hero': Marlott and Syphilis p. 150

Power and Education p. 153

Changing Masculinities: Sharpe for the New Millennium? p. 154

Part III Masculinities from World War I to the Cold War

9 'The war is done. Shut the door on it!': The Great War, Masculinity and Trauma in British Period Television p. 165 / Julie Anne Taddeo

Uniforms and Masculine Authority p. 167

Hysterical Men p. 171

The Manly Death, Shirkers and Disabled Bodies p. 174

The Veteran's Anger p. 177

Conclusion: Memorialising Male Sacrifice p. 181

10 Pride versus Prejudice: Wounded Men, Masculinity and Disability in Downton Abbey p. 187 / Claire O'Callaghan

The Dilemma of Disabled Masculinity p. 191

'Think of me as dead': Matthew Crawley's Disabled Masculinity p. 193

Disabled Masculinity: The Case of Mr Bates p. 196

11 A Minority of Men: The Conscientious Objector in Period Drama p. 206 / Lucy Brown

'His name is Coward. His name is Shirker': Realism and Melodrama in The Village p. 208

'Mixed with sour milk': Downton Abbey's Idealistic CO p. 213

'You're not the man I thought you were': Echoes of World War I in Home Fires and Upstairs, Downstairs p. 216

12 Cads, Cowards and Cowmen: Masculinity in Crisis in World War II Television Drama p. 221 / Stella Hockenhull

Masculinity in British Cinema and Television Drama p. 222

Wounded Masculinity in Period Drama p. 229

The WI Saves the Day p. 233

13 'Have you seen Walliams' Bottom?: Detecting the 'Ordinary' Man in Partners in Crime p. 239 / Louise FitzGerald

Gender and Genre p. 240

Camp David, Camp Criticism and Otherness p. 241

The Two Tommys; The Secret Adversary and Models of Male Identity p. 245

Of Bees and Men: Gender Dualism and the Detective Figure p. 249

14 'No Need to Matronise Me!': The Crown, the Male Consort and Conflicted Masculinity p. 259 / James Leggott

The Feminised Monarchy and Melodrama p. 261

The Male Consort: Malcontent and Moderniser p. 264

The Crown and the Philip Problem p. 269

The Crown and the Twenty-First Century p. 271.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 278-295) and index.

Other Format:

Electronic version: 9781786724168

ISBN:

1788313356

9781788313353

OCLC:

1020030058