Bradley Deane

Masculinity and the New Imperialism

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Produktbeschreibung

This study uses popular literature to offer a fresh account of Victorian manliness as it was transformed by imperial and colonial politics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9781107066076
• ISBN-10: 1107066077
• Artikelnr.: 40564902

Autorenporträt

Bradley Deane is Associate Professor of English and Morse-Alumni Distinguished University Teaching Professor at the University of Minnesota. He is author of The Making of the Victorian Novelist (2003). Work for this book was supported by a grant from the National Endowment of the Humanities.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: better men
1. Gunga Din and other better men: the burden of imperial manhood in Kipling's verse
2. Cultural cross-dressing and the politics of masculine performance
3. Piracy, play, and the boys who wouldn't grow up
4. In statu pupillari: schoolboys, savages, and colonial authority
5. Barbarism and the lost worlds of masculinity
6. Mummies, marriage, and the occupation of Egypt
7. Fitter men: H. G. Wells and the impossible future of masculinity
Bibliography.