{"product_id":"pope-homer-and-manliness","title":"Pope, Homer, and Manliness","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe author here reassesses the concept of ‘masculinity’, and argues that it cannot be seen as an absolute standard, but only as the product of perpetual conflict between competing and unstable models. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe argument is sustained by a close reading of the problematic conflict between gendered values in eighteenth-century classical learning. Pope’s \u003ci\u003eHomer \u003c\/i\u003eensured the continuation of the tradition of using the\u003ci\u003e Iliad \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e to teach privileged boys how to become more ‘manly’. This book examines this pedagogy in its socio-literary context, and concludes that Pope’s \u003ci\u003eHomer \u003c\/i\u003eemerges as a relic of the struggle to preserve masculine dignity from the encroachments of feminine values in the text. This knowledge of classical and early modern literature has rarely been brought to bear on gender studies. First published in 1993, it remains a valuable contribution to debates concerning the reception of the Classical tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54234657194328,"sku":"9781138021280","price":192.2,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781138021280_63b89495-0195-407b-94a8-cf7cdc17d161.jpg?v=1769688918","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/pope-homer-and-manliness","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}