Effeminate Years: Literature, Politics, and Aesthetics in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain

Effeminate Years: Literature, Politics, and Aesthetics in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain
ISBN-10
1611488257
ISBN-13
9781611488258
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
268
Language
English
Published
2017-06-23
Publisher
Bucknell University Press
Author
Declan Kavanagh

Description

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 is still the basis for debate and argument.

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