Masculinity And Race In Victorian Britain

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Each of our authors has investigated some of those contradictions, conflicts, and anxieties within their own area of study. The first two essays locate their enquiries into Victorian masculinity outside of Britain, specifically in Africa. Catherine E. Anderson reveals the contrasts and congruences between the ‘barbarian’ Zulus, and the ‘civilized’ (white) colonizers through an In contemporary British culture the label ‘Victorian’ continues to serve as a necessary shorthand to denote the past from which we are anxious to escape. Not even the vigorous defence of ‘Victorian values’ mounted by the Conservatives in the 1980s succeeded in dislodging the association of Victorianism with joyless and hypocritical

Class and Gender in Victorian England: The Diaries of Arthur J.

In this article, I demonstrate the value of gender as a lens for understanding British/English national identity through an analysis of discourses of Anglo-British exceptionalism. Gender and sexual

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Out of His Mind interrogates how Victorians made sense ofthe madman as both a social reality and a cultural representation.Even at the height of enthusiasm for This text puts the madman at the centre of the history of Victorian masculinity and helps us better understand the stigma of men’s mental illness that continues to this day.

Race impinges on Victorian consciousness in five major ways: the capitalist relations of production in an era of free trade imperialism, which involved slavery, indenture, and wage labor; fears of miscegenation, hybridity, and a degeneration of the pure race concomitant to the cultural and sexual traffic in the colonies as well as

Tomas argues that “late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century female authored visions of creole masculinity added new layers of complexity to dominant concepts of masculinity and race within British culture”. The Politics of Gender in Victorian Britain Masculinity, Political Culture and the Struggle for Women’s Rights

Abstract Victorian literature offers a compelling lens through which to examine gender and power dynamics in 19th-century England. This study explores how key literary works from the period reflect, reinforce, and challenge traditional gender roles within a rigidly hierarchical society. By analyzing the writings of Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, and other notable

John Tosh, Masculinities in an Industrializing Society: Britain, 1800–1914, Journal of British Studies, Vol. 44, No. 2 (April 2005), pp. 330-342

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2Graham Dawson, Soldier Heroes: British Adventure, Empire and the Imagining of Masculinities (1994). Other work in this genre includes Anne McClintock, Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Context (1995). Download Citation | The Gentlemen’s Club: Cycling and Masculinity in Victorian Britain | In this chapter, the author illustrates the importance of history in understanding contemporary social Gender roles in the Victorian period: Separate spheres The gender role records of Britain in the Victorian period can be interpreted as being under an extensive masculine pressure that prioritized men, while at the same time involving a gradual female challenge to

The present paper sheds the lights on Masculinity as a concept and as a perception during the Victorian period. Many debates and controversies were done on the rights of women. However, Masculinity got little interest among critics and scholars till Abstract This article provides an overview of the academic study of Victorian masculinity. It argues that the pioneering work of feminist and sexuality studies scholars in Victorian studies during Read „Red Coats and Black Shields: Race and Masculinity in British Representations of the Anglo-Zulu War, Critical Survey“ on DeepDyve, the largest online rental service for scholarly research with thousands of academic publications available at your fingertips.

Leonore Davidoff, Class and Gender in Victorian England: The Diaries of Arthur J. Munby and Hannah Cullwick, Feminist Studies, Vol. 5, No. 1, Women and Power: Dimensions of Women’s Historical Experience (Spring, 1979), pp. 86-141 Michael S. Reidy *, Mountaineering, Masculinity, and the Male Body in Mid-Victorian Britain, Osiris, Vol. 30, No. 1, Scientific Masculinities (January 2015), pp. 158-181

English literature — 19th century — History and criticism, Masculinity in literature, English literature — Male authors — History and criticism, Authors, English — 19th century — Psychology, Male authors, English — Psychology, Art and literature — Great Britain, Poetics — History — 19th century, Pre-Raphaelitism — Great Although nothing like as popular or widespread as the later Victorian beard trend, the reappearance of hair on the faces of young British men created tensions and opened up new debates about what was acceptable in terms of male appearance. 2 Studies of masculinity have frequently been concerned with questions of male hegemony, norms and ideals. Kipling’s Stalky & Co., I trace a mode of Victorian masculinity that refashions the excessive individualism of the criminal into an ideology advantageous to Britain’s growing imperial enterprise that prized inborn dissatisfaction, rebellious instincts, competitive, self-serving, and other such asocial, or “bad” behavior.

Laura Eastlake, Ancient Rome and Victorian Masculinity (宮崎かすみ) J. Jeffrey Franklin, Spirit Matters: Occult Beliefs, Alternative Religious, and the Crisis of Faith in Victorian Britain (目野由希)

The Gentlemen’s Club: Cycling and Masculinity in Victorian Britain

Ben Griffin, Girton College This paper explores what the political history of Victorian Britain would look like if viewed through the lens of the history of masculinity. What difference did it make to British politics that the political elites were overwhelmingly male and that the electorate was exclusively male until 1918? The paper will examine how the conduct of politics was shaped by This book convincingly shows that madness operated as normative masculinity’s foil.‘. ‚An original contribution to our understanding of how gender, and especially masculinity, impacted the experience and representation of madness in Victorian Britain.‘.

Masculinity as a social construct among the imperial administrators of the Victorian age made it easier to order “inferior” peoples around and gave its protagonists the ability to project quiet, firm authority. It was a useful tool for those who had to carry

Victorian Masculinities Nineteenth-century Britain saw an institutionalisation of gender through education – in the form of boarding schools, separate for boys and girls, but also later in life through the gentleman’s club and the household, which was a woman’s terrain in

7 Dorothy Porter, ‘“Enemies of the Race”. Biologism, Environmentalism, and Public Health in Edwardian England’, Victorian Studies, 34, 2 (Winter 1991), 159-78; Simon Szreter, Fertility, Class and Gender in Britain, 1860-1940 (Cambridge 1996); Greta Jones, Social Hygiene in Twentieth-Century Britain (London 1986); Michael Freedan, ‘Eugenics and Progressive Thought. A Study

Representations of masculinity – what men should think and feel, how they should look, and what sorts of work they should do – shifted several times in Victorian England. During the first half of the nineteenth century, as Herbert Sussman demonstrates in Victorian Masculinities: Manhood and Masculine Poetics in Early Victorian England (1995), a discourse Milne-Smith, Amy. Out of His Mind: Masculinity and Mental Illness in Victorian Britain. Pbk ed. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022. £25.00. xi + 311 pp. ISBN: 978-1-5261-7885-5 Created 28 June 2024

Victorian Masculinity: A Selected Bibliography Victorian Theories of Biology and Gender: A Bibliography Milne-Smith, Amy. Out of His Mind: Masculinity and Mental Illness in Victorian Britain. Pbk ed. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022. £25.00. xi Introduction John Tosh has argued that ‘the idea of manliness exercised a powerful hold over the Victorians’ and was ‘used in an extraordinary variety of contexts’.1 One of these contexts was arguably the area of artistic activity. The figure of the male artist in the nineteenth century was a locus for various concerns surrounding the construction of masculinity, such as the issue of

Out of His Mind interrogates how Victorians made sense of the madman as both a social reality and a cultural representation. Even at the height of enthusiasm for the curative powers of nineteenth-century psychiatry, to be certified as a lunatic meant a loss of one’s freedom and in many ways one’s identify. Because men had the most power and authority in Victorian Britain, Out of His Mind interrogates how Victorians made sense of the madman as both a social reality and a cultural representation. Even at the height of enthusiasm for the curative powers of nineteenth-century psychiatry, to be certified as a lunatic meant a loss of one’s freedom and in many ways one’s identify. Because men had the most power and authority in Victorian Britain,

This article situates the novellas of Stevenson and Wells within late nineteenth century discourses of degeneration and imperialism, establishing connections between fears of imperial decline and anxieties concerning the concept of masculinity at the fin de siècle. Identifying these works as examples of the late-Victorian romance revival, the piece considers the extent to which they Levels of ‘acceptable’ violence varied significantly by class, yet most Victorians believed men’s essential nature was ferocious.84 Aggression as masculinity was prevalent in popular understandings, and non-criminal, controlled forms of violent expression were often seen as natural.85 Historians disagree whether English society became

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Syllabus This course considers the theory and practice of women’s participation in British economic, social and political life. Key themes will include education, employment, citizenship and social reform. The course aims to provide an introduction to debates about gender and history and employs a variety of sources (including novels, autobiography, political pamphlets and social

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