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.

English Masculinities, 1660-1800

English Masculinities, 1660-1800
Title English Masculinities, 1660-1800 PDF eBook
Author Tim Hitchcock
Publisher Routledge
Pages 324
Release 2014-07-30
Genre History
ISBN 1317882490

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This collection of specially commissioned essays provides the first social history of masculinity in the ‘long eighteenth century’. Drawing on diaries, court records and prescriptive literature, it explores the different identities of late Stuart and Georgian men. The heterosexual fop, the homosexual, the polite gentleman, the blackguard, the man of religion, the reader of erotica and the violent aggressor are each examined here, and in the process a new and increasingly important field of historical enquiry is opened up to the non-specialist reader. The book opens with a substantial introduction by the Editors. This provides readers with a detailed context for the chapters which follow. The core of the book is divided into four main parts looking at sociability, virtue and friendship, violence, and sexuality. Within this framework each chapter forms a self-contained unit, with its own methodology, sources and argument. The chapters address issues such as the correlations between masculinity and Protestantism; masculinity, Englishness and taciturnity; and the impact of changing representations of homosexual desire on the social organisation of heterosexuality. Misogyny, James Boswell's self-presentation, the literary and metaphorical representation of the body, the roles of gossip and violence in men's lives, are each addressed in individual chapters. The volume is concluded by a wide-ranging synoptic essay by John Tosh, which sets a new agenda for the history of masculinity. An extensive guide to further reading is also provided. Designed for students, academics and the general reader alike, this collection of essays provides a wide-ranging and accessible framework within which to understand eighteenth-century men. Because of the variety of approaches and conclusions it contains, and because this is the first attempt to bring together a comprehensive set of writings on the social history of eighteenth-century masculinity, this volume does something quite new. It de-centres and problematises the male ‘standard’ and explores the complex and disparate masculinites enacted by the men of this period. This will be essential reading for anyone interested in eighteenth-century British social history.

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
ISBN

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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.