Dandies and Desert Saints: Styles of Victorian Masculinity
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| Rating | : | 4.61 (512 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0801482089 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 264 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Offers a rich and complex argumentbuilds 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."Joseph H. O'Mealy, Department of English, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Journal of the History of Sexuality
"Ugh!" according to Rob L.. As someone with a B.A. in History, with a minor in English, as well as being someone now working on my second graduate degree (both in reading-heavy areas), I can honestly say that this is by far the most boring, tedious book I have ever read in my life.
What distinguishes Adams's book from others in the recent explosion of interest in masculinity is his refusal to approach masculinity primarily in terms of "patriarchy" or "phallogocentrism" or within the binary of homosexualities and heterosexualities.. James Eli Adams examines masculine identity in Victorian literature from Thomas Carlyle through Oscar Wilde, analyzing authors who identify the age's ideal of manhood as the power of self-discipline. A Choice "Outstanding Academic Book for 1996"While drawing on work in feminism, queer theory, and cultural history, Dandies and Desert Saints challenges scholars to rethink simplistic notions of Victorian manhood