Victorian Masculinities: Manhood and Masculine Poetics in Early Victorian Literature and Art

by Herbert L. Sussman

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521054664

ISBN13:9780521054669

Release Date:February 2008

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:240 Pages

Weight:0.79 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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