Dandies and Desert Saints : : Styles of Victorian Masculinity / / James Eli Adams.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Adams, James Eli,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©1995
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; 1. Dandies and Prophets: Spectacles of Victorian Masculinity --; 2. "A Sort of Masonry": Secrecy and "Manliness" in Early Victorian Brotherhoods --; 3. Imagining the Science of Renunciation: Manhood and Abasement in Kingsley and Tennyson --; 4. Muscular Aestheticism: Masculine Authority and the Male Body --; 5. Gentleman, Dandy, Priest: Masks and Masculinity in Pater's Aestheticism --; Afterword --; Works Cited --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501720437; 9783110536171
• DOI: 10.7591/9781501720437
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: James Eli Adams.

A Choice "Outstanding Academic Book for 1996"While drawing on work in feminism, queer theory, and cultural history, Dandies and Desert Saints challenges scholars to rethink simplistic notions of Victorian manhood. James Eli Adams examines masculine identity in Victorian literature from Thomas Carlyle through Oscar Wilde, analyzing authors who identify the age's ideal of manhood as the power of self-discipline. What distinguishes Adams's book from others in the recent explosion of interest in masculinity is his refusal to approach masculinity primarily in terms of "patriarchy" or "phallogocentrism" or within the binary of homosexualities and heterosexualities.