Manhood in Early Modern England

Manhood in Early Modern England
Title Manhood in Early Modern England PDF eBook
Author Elizabeth A Foyster
Publisher Routledge
Pages 260
Release 2014-09-25
Genre History
ISBN 1317884272

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This is the first book to focus on the relationships which men formed with their wives in early modern England, making it an important contribution to a new understanding of English, social, family, and gender history. Dr Foyster redresses the balance of historical research which has largely concentrated on the public lives of prominent men. The book looks at youth and courtship before marriage, male fears of their wives' gossip and sexual betrayal, and male friendships before and after marriage. Highlighted throughout is the importance of sexual reputation. Based on both legal records and fictional sources, this is a fascinating insight into the personal lives of ordinary men and women in early modern England.

Meanings of Manhood in Early Modern England

Meanings of Manhood in Early Modern England
Title Meanings of Manhood in Early Modern England PDF eBook
Author Alexandra Shepard
Publisher Oxford University Press on Demand
Pages 292
Release 2006
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9780199299348

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This path-breaking study explores the diverse and varied meanings of manhood in early modern England and their complex, and often contested, relationship with patriarchal principles. Using social, political and medical commentary, alongside evidence of social practice derived from court records, Dr Shepard argues that patriarchal ideology contained numerous contradictions, and that, while males were its primary beneficiaries, it was undermined and opposed by men as well as women. Patriarchal concepts of manhood existed in tension both with anti-patriarchal forms of resistance and with alternative codes of manhood which were sometimes primarily defined independently of patriarchal imperatives. As a result the differences within each sex, as well as between them, were intrinsic to the practice of patriarchy and the social distribution of its dividends in early modern England.

Anxious Masculinity in Early Modern England

Anxious Masculinity in Early Modern England
Title Anxious Masculinity in Early Modern England PDF eBook
Author Mark Breitenberg
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 240
Release 1996-03-14
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9780521485883

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Explores the importance of heterosexual masculine identity in Renaissance literature and culture.

The Rule of Manhood

The Rule of Manhood
Title The Rule of Manhood PDF eBook
Author Jamie A. Gianoutsos
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 439
Release 2020-12-10
Genre History
ISBN 1108478832

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Explores how classical and gendered conceptions of tyranny shaped early Stuart understandings of monarchy and the development of republican thought.

Masculinity and Emotion in Early Modern English Literature

Masculinity and Emotion in Early Modern English Literature
Title Masculinity and Emotion in Early Modern English Literature PDF eBook
Author Jennifer C. Vaught
Publisher Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Pages 264
Release 2008
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780754662945

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Offering new readings of works by Shakespeare, Spenser, and their contemporaries, this study examines the profound impact of the cultural shift in the English aristocracy from feudal warriors to emotionally expressive courtiers or gentlemen on all kinds of men in early modern English literature. Jennifer Vaught traces the gradual emergence of men of feeling during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, to the blossoming of this literary version of manhood during the eighteenth century.

Magic and Masculinity in Early Modern English Drama

Magic and Masculinity in Early Modern English Drama
Title Magic and Masculinity in Early Modern English Drama PDF eBook
Author Ian McAdam
Publisher Penn State University Press
Pages 1100
Release 2009
Genre Drama
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"The prevalent worldview of early modern England, shaped by Protestantism, dismissed magical belief as an ideological delusion inherent to Catholicism, while also encouraging a strong sense of individualism, through which a new masculinity found expression. This study asks why, then, did magical self-empowerment retain such a hold on that society's imagination?"--Provided by publisher.

Facial Hair and the Performance of Early Modern Masculinity

Facial Hair and the Performance of Early Modern Masculinity
Title Facial Hair and the Performance of Early Modern Masculinity PDF eBook
Author Eleanor Rycroft
Publisher Routledge
Pages 184
Release 2019-06-28
Genre Drama
ISBN 1351265024

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Facial Hair and the Performance of Early Modern Masculinity is the first full-length critical study to analyse the importance of beards in terms of the theatrical performance of masculinity. According to medical, cultural, and literary discourses of early modern era in England, facial hair marked adult manliness while beardlessness indicated boyhood. Beards were therefore a passport to cultural prerogatives. This book explores this in relation to the early modern stage, a space in which the processes of gender formation in early modern society were writ large, and how the uses of facial hair in the theatre illuminate the operations of power and politics in society more widely. Written for scholars of Early Modern Theatre and Theatre History, this volume anatomises the role of beards in the construction of onstage masculinity, acknowledging the challenges offered to the dominant ideology of manliness by boys and men who misrepresented or failed to fulfil bearded masculine ideals.