Genealogy of the Gentleman
Regular price
€132.99
Regular price
€147.99
Sale
Sale price
€132.99
A01=Mary Beth Harris
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
Author_Mary Beth Harris
authorship
automatic-update
British literature
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=DS
Category=JBSF1
Category=JFSJ1
Charlotte Lennox
COP=United States
courtship novels
cultural studies
David Hume
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
eighteenth-century English literature
eighteenth-century literature
eighteenth-century studies
Eliza Haywood
Elizabeth Inchbald
eq_bestseller
eq_biography-true-stories
eq_isMigrated=0
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
essays and periodicals
gender studies
gentleman
Joseph Addison
Language_English
literary studies
Mary Davys
Mary Robinson
masculinity
masculinity studies
PA=Available
Price_€100 and above
PS=Active
Richard Steele
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Richardson
softlaunch
the gentleman
women writers
women's studies
Product details
- ISBN 9781644533291
- Weight: 463g
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 15 Mar 2024
- Publisher: University of Delaware Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
A Genealogy of the Gentleman argues that eighteenth-century women writers made key interventions in modern ideals of masculinity and authorship through their narrative constructions of the gentleman. It challenges two latent critical assumptions: first, that the gentleman’s masculinity is normative, private, and therefore oppositional to concepts of performance; and second, that women writers, from their disadvantaged position within a patriarchal society, had no real means of influencing dominant structures of masculinity. By placing writers such as Mary Davys, Eliza Haywood, Charlotte Lennox, Elizabeth Inchbald, and Mary Robinson in dialogue with canonical representatives of the gentleman author-Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, David Hume, Samuel Johnson, and Samuel Richardson-Mary Beth Harris shows how these women carved out a space for their literary authority not by overtly opposing their male critics and society’s patriarchal structure, but by rewriting the persona of the gentleman as a figure whose very desirability and appeal were dependent on women’s influence. Ultimately, this project considers the import of these women writers’ legacy, both progressive and conservative, on hegemonic standards of masculinity that persist to this day.
Mary Beth Harris is assistant professor at Emporia State University where she teaches English and serves as the Director of the Composition Program. Her book A Genealogy of the Gentleman: Women Writers and Masculinity in the Eighteenth-Century was published March 2024 by University of Delaware Press. Her other most recent work can be found in Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, and The Eighteenth Century, as well as in two edited collections, Castration, Impotence, and Emasculation in the Long Eighteenth Century and A Spy on Eliza Haywood: Addresses to a Multifarious Writer.
