A Genealogy of the Gentleman: Women Writers and Masculinity in the Eighteenth Century

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A Genealogy of the Gentleman argues that eighteenth-century women writers made key interventions in modern ideals of masculinity and authorship through their narrative constructions of the gentleman. It challenges two latent critical assumptions: first, that the gentleman's masculinity is normative, private, and therefore oppositional to concepts of performance; and second, that women writers, from their disadvantaged position within a patriarchal...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1644533286

ISBN13:9781644533284

Release Date:March 2024

Publisher:University of Delaware Press

Length:252 Pages

Age Range:18 years and up

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

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