Stephen H. Gregg

Defoe's Writings and Manliness (eBook, ePUB)

Contrary Men

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317153450
• Artikelnr.: 45096637

Autorenporträt

Dr Stephen H. Gregg is Senior Lecturer in English at Bath Spa University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Defoe, manliness and effeminacy
Chapter 1 'Complete' men, trade and history
Chapter 2 Born gentlemen and godly manliness
Chapter 3 Crusoe, toil and temptation
Chapter 4
A Journal of the Plague Year
: godly manliness under stress
Chapter 5 Singleton, friendship and secrecy
Chapter 6 Colonel Jack and the perils of delusion
Contrary Men