Manliness in Britain, 1760-1900 : bodies, emotion, and material culture / Joanne Begiato.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Begiato, Joanne, author.

Series:

Studies in design and material culture.

Studies in design & material culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Masculinity--Great Britain--History.

Masculinity.

Material culture--Great Britain--History.

Material culture.

Masculinity in art--History.

Masculinity in art.

Working class in art--History.

Working class in art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (255 pages) : illustrations; digital file(s).

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2020.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

This text 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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-5261-5204-5

1-5261-2858-6

OCLC:

1142630190