Publication

2018 - Cambridge University Press

Language

English

Word Count

66,000 words, Guess

Page Count

264 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139781107195196
  • ISBN-101107195195
  • Library of Congress Control Number2017034632
  • OCLC Control Number1038024897
  • Better World Books9781107195196
and 1 more

Classifications

  • LCCPN56.M316
  • LCCHQ1090 .B365 2018

Description

This book investigates the figure of the military man in the long eighteenth century in order to explore how ideas about militarism served as vehicles for conceptualizations of masculinity. Bringing together representations of military men and accounts of court martial proceedings, this book examines eighteenth-century arguments about masculinity and those that appealed to the 'naturally' sexed body and construed masculinity as social construction and performance. Julia Banister's discussion draws on a range of printed materials, including canonical literary and philosophical texts by David Hume, Adam Smith, Horace Walpole and Jane Austen, and texts relating to the naval trials of, amongst others, Admiral John Byng.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Masculinity, Militarism and the Eighteenth-Century Culture, 1689-1815Cambridge University Press2018-01-01

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