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Bob Singleton
Bob's Friendship
Bosom Friend
Captain Singleton
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Civic Humanism
Civil Society
Compleat English Gentleman
Complete English Tradesman
Defoe's Attitude
Defoe's Captain Singleton
Defoe's Representations
Defoe's Writings
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Farther Adventures
Godly Manliness
High Church Tories
Jure Divino
King GEORGE
Male Male Friendship
Male Male Intimacy
Satire Reformation
Strange Surprizing Adventures
True Born Englishman
William III
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780754656050
- Weight: 521g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 14 Oct 2009
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Defoe's Writings and Manliness is a timely intervention in Defoe studies and in the study of masculinity in eighteenth-century literature more generally. Arguing that Defoe's writings insistently returned to the issues of manliness and its contrary, effeminacy, this book reveals how he drew upon a complex and diverse range of discourses through which masculinity was discussed in the period. It is for this reason that this book crosses over and moves between modern paradigms for the analysis of eighteenth-century masculinity to assess Defoe's men. A combination of Defoe's clarity of vision, a spirit of contrariness and a streak of moral didacticism resulted in an idiosyncratic and restless testing of the forces surrounding his period's ideas of manliness. Defoe's men are men, but they are never unproblematically so: they display a contrariness which indicates that a failure of manliness is never very far away.
Dr Stephen H. Gregg is Senior Lecturer in English at Bath Spa University, UK.
