Bibliograph

Victorian masculinities, manhood and masculine poetics in early Victorian literature and art, Herbert Sussman

Type

Label

Victorian masculinities, manhood and masculine poetics in early Victorian literature and art, Herbert Sussman

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Victorian masculinities

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

183260848

Responsibility statement

Herbert Sussman

Series statement

Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture, 3

Sub title

manhood and masculine poetics in early Victorian literature and art

Summary

"Herbert Sussman's book explores ideas of manhood and masculinity as they emerged in the early Victorian period, and traces these through diverse formations in the literature and art of the time. Concentrating on representative major figures - Thomas Carlyle, Robert Browning, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and Walter Pater - Sussman focuses on areas of conflict and contradiction within their formulation of the masculine. He identifies the development of a 'masculine poetics' as a project which was for the Victorians, and continues to be, crucial to an industrial and commercial age. The book reveals manhood as an unstable equilibrium, and is responsive to the complex ways in which the early Victorians' masculine poetics simultaneously subverts and maintains patriarchal power."--pub. desc

Table Of Contents

Introduction -- The condition of manliness question: Thomas Carlyle and industrial manhood -- The problematic of a masculine poetics: Robert Browning -- Artistic manhood: the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood -- Masculinity transformed: appropriation in Walter Pater's early writing -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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