Effeminate years : literature, politics, and aesthetics in mid-eighteenth-century Britain

Effeminate years : literature, politics, and aesthetics in mid-eighteenth-century Britain / Declan Kavanagh.

This book traces the development of modern ideas of masculinity and the political subject back to the Enlightenment period in Britain to show how the very concept of political agency was shaped by anti-effeminate ideas and beliefs. This study queers our understanding of the political subject, which...

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Main Author:	Kavanagh, Declan, 1986- (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[Lewisburg, PA] : Lanham, Maryland : Bucknell University Press ; The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2017]
Series:	Transits (Bucknell University)
Subjects:	1700-1799 English literature > 18th century > History and criticism. Politics and literature > Great Britain > History > 18th century. Masculinity in literature. Masculinity > Great Britain > History > 18th century. Literature and society > Great Britain > History > 18th century. English literature Literature and society Masculinity Masculinity in literature Politics and literature Great Britain Criticism, interpretation, etc. History
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