Dandies and Desert Saints: Styles of Victorian Masculinity

James Eli Adams

Published by Cornell University Press 1995

Dandies and Desert Saints

Styles of Victorian Masculinity

James Eli Adams

https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501720437

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About this book

While drawing on work in feminism, queer theory, and cultural history, Dandies and Desert Saints challenges scholars to rethink simplistic notions of Victorian manhood.

Author / Editor information

James Eli Adams is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the author of A History of Victorian Literature.

Reviews

Joseph H. O'Mealy, Department of English, University of Hawaii at Manoa:

Offers a rich and complex argument.... Builds on important work by Victorianists such as Linda Dowling, Norma Clarke, and Herbert Sussman, and is as much at home with Walter Houghton as with Michel Foucault. By foregrounding issues of gender and placing these ideas in a more precise social and historical context than is usual, Dandies and Desert Saints deepens and expands the discussion of masculinities in the Victorian period.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Dandies and Prophets: Spectacles of Victorian Masculinity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
2. "A Sort of Masonry": Secrecy and "Manliness" in Early Victorian Brotherhoods Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
3. Imagining the Science of Renunciation: Manhood and Abasement in Kingsley and Tennyson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
4. Muscular Aestheticism: Masculine Authority and the Male Body Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
5. Gentleman, Dandy, Priest: Masks and Masculinity in Pater's Aestheticism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
Afterword Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
Works Cited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 264
Keywords: Europe; Literary Studies

eBook

Published: July 5, 2018
ISBN: 9781501720437