Description
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.
Author: James Eli Adams
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 12/07/1995
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 9.02h x 6.07w x 0.63d
ISBN13: 9780801482083
ISBN10: 0801482089
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Social Science | Men's Studies
About the Author
James Eli Adams is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the author of A History of Victorian Literature.