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British Masculinity in the 'Gentleman’s Magazine', 1731 to 1815

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Authors:
  1. Gillian Williamson

    1. Independent Scholar, UK

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Part of the book series: Genders and Sexualities in History (GSX)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Gillian Williamson
    Pages 1-4

  3. Gentlemanly Masculinity

    • Gillian Williamson
    Pages 5-13

  4. The History of the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1731 to 1815

    • Gillian Williamson
    Pages 14-32

  5. Readers and Contributors

    • Gillian Williamson
    Pages 33-70

  6. Gentlemanly Masculinity in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1731 to 1756

    • Gillian Williamson
    Pages 71-108

  7. Gentlemanly Masculinity in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1757 to 1789

    • Gillian Williamson
    Pages 109-148

  8. Gentlemanly Masculinity in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1790 to 1815

    • Gillian Williamson
    Pages 149-180

  9. Conclusion

    • Gillian Williamson
    Pages 181-186

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 187-283
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About this book

The Gentleman's Magazine was the leading eighteenth-century periodical. By integrating the magazine's history, readers and contents this study shows how 'gentlemanliness' was reshaped to accommodate their social and political ambitions.

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“Gillian Williamson’s fascinating book offers a sustained and detailed study of the Magazine’s readership and its changing ideas of the gentleman, from its foundation by Edward Cave in 1731 to the aftermath of Waterloo in 1815. … the Gentleman’s Magazine had been an aspirational publication for the ‘middling sort’, in which readers from the mercantile and professional classes fashioned the figure of the gentleman in their own image.” (Caroline Gonda, The BARS Review, Issue 49, 2017)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Independent Scholar, UK

    Gillian Williamson

About the author

Gillian Williamson read Classics at the University of Cambridge, UK, and worked as a corporate finance adviser in London. She returned to academic study after editing a lottery-funded local history book, and also contributed to The Victoria History of Essex: Newport (2015).

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