ISBN:
9781474428620
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (273 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Parsons, Joanne Ella The Victorian Male Body
DDC:
305.31094109034
Keywords:
English prose literature-19th century-History and criticism
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Masculinity in literature-19th century
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Men-Great Britain-History-19th century
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Masculinity-Great Britain-History-19th century
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Body image-Great Britain-History-19th century
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Body image in men-Great Britain-History-20th century
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Body image.-fast-(OCoLC)fst00835344
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Body image in men.-fast-(OCoLC)fst00835359
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Masculinity.-fast-(OCoLC)fst01011027
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Men.-fast-(OCoLC)fst01015978
;
Great Britain.-fast-(OCoLC)fst01204623
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Abstract:
Imagines the end of anthropocentrism through contemporary science fiction and speculative realism
Abstract:
Intro -- Series Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Visible and Invisible Bodies -- Part I Constructed Bodies -- Chapter 1 Violent Play and Regular Discipline: The Abuses of the Schoolboy Body in Victorian Fiction -- Chapter 2 Punishing the Unregulated Manly Body and Emotions in Early Victorian England -- Chapter 3 The New Man's Body in Ménie Muriel Dowie's Gallia -- Part II Fractured and Fragmented Bodies -- Chapter 4 Pirates and Prosthetics: Manly Messages for Managing Limb Loss in Victorian and Edwardian Adventure Narratives -- Chapter 5 Tuberculosis and Visionary Sensibility: The Consumptive Body as Masculine Dissent in George Eliot and Henry James -- Chapter 6 Monstrous Masculinities from the Macaroni to Mr Hyde: Reading the Gothic 'Gentleman' -- Chapter 7 Visible yet Immaterial: The Phantom and the Male Body in Ghost Stories by Three Victorian Women Writers -- Part III Unruly Bodies -- Chapter 8 Aesthetics of Deviance: George du Maurier's Representations of the Artist's Body for Punch as Discourse on Manliness, 1870-1880 -- Chapter 9 Suffering, Asceticism and the Starving Male Body in Mary Barton -- Chapter 10 Fosco's Fat: Transgressive Consumption and Bodily Control in Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White -- Chapter 11 Sensationalising Otherness: The Italian Male Body in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's 'Olivia' and 'Garibaldi' -- Contributors -- Index
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