Victorian Masculinities by Herbert Sussman

Name: Victorian Masculinities
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Part of Cambridge Studies In Nineteenth-Century Literature And Culture series

Summary

Applying the methods of feminist criticism to the study of masculinity, this book is the first to examine constructions of manhood in early Victorian literature and art. Sussman concentrates on representative major figures: Thomas Carlyle, Robert Browning, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and Walter Pater.

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Victorian Masculinities by Herbert Sussman

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.

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ISBN 13	9780521465717
ISBN 10	0521465710
Title	Victorian Masculinities
Author	Herbert Sussman
Series	Cambridge Studies In Nineteenth-Century Literature And Culture
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	1995-01-26
Number of pages	239
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