Defoe’s Writings and Manliness
Title | Defoe’s Writings and Manliness PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen H. Gregg |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 2016-05-13 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1317153464 |
Defoe's Writings and Manliness is a timely intervention in Defoe studies and in the study of masculinity in eighteenth-century literature more generally. Arguing that Defoe's writings insistently returned to the issues of manliness and its contrary, effeminacy, this book reveals how he drew upon a complex and diverse range of discourses through which masculinity was discussed in the period. It is for this reason that this book crosses over and moves between modern paradigms for the analysis of eighteenth-century masculinity to assess Defoe's men. A combination of Defoe's clarity of vision, a spirit of contrariness and a streak of moral didacticism resulted in an idiosyncratic and restless testing of the forces surrounding his period's ideas of manliness. Defoe's men are men, but they are never unproblematically so: they display a contrariness which indicates that a failure of manliness is never very far away.
Defoe's Writings and Manliness
Title | Defoe's Writings and Manliness PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen H. Gregg |
Publisher | |
Pages | 197 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Masculinity in literature |
ISBN | 9781315576299 |
Restless Men
Title | Restless Men PDF eBook |
Author | K. Downing |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 348 |
Release | 2014-06-25 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 113734895X |
Robinson Crusoe's call to adventure and do-it-yourself settlement resonated with British explorers. In tracing the links in a discursive chain through which a particular male subjectivity was forged, Karen Downing reveals how such men took their tensions with them to Australia, so that the colonies never were a solution to restless men's anxieties.
Robinson Crusoe Readalong
Title | Robinson Crusoe Readalong PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Defoe |
Publisher | Ags Pub |
Pages | 64 |
Release | 1994-08 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780785407706 |
Daniel Defoe: His Life and Recently Discovered Writings
Title | Daniel Defoe: His Life and Recently Discovered Writings PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Defoe |
Publisher | |
Pages | 560 |
Release | 1869 |
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Constructions of Masculinity in British Literature from the Middle Ages to the Present
Title | Constructions of Masculinity in British Literature from the Middle Ages to the Present PDF eBook |
Author | S. Horlacher |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 445 |
Release | 2011-12-19 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 113701587X |
An in-depth analysis into the construction of male identity as well as a unique and comprehensive historical overview of how masculinity has been constructed in British literature from the Middle Ages to the present. This book is an important contribution to the emerging field of masculinity studies.
Daniel Defoe: The second volume of his writings
Title | Daniel Defoe: The second volume of his writings PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Defoe |
Publisher | |
Pages | 514 |
Release | 1869 |
Genre | |
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