Manliness in Britain, 1760–1900

Manliness in Britain, 1760–1900This book focuses on mens bodies, emotions and material culture to offer a new understanding of masculinities in Britain in the long nineteenth century. Using objects as well as texts and images, it shows how idealised and ugly bodies, and the feelings they stimulated, helped convey ideas about manliness and unmanliness across society.

This book guides readers through unfamiliar textual landscapes where 'being' is defined as an act rather than a form

making a compelling case for bringing back improvisation from the margins

World Film Locations: Madrid is a trip through the urban space conceived as film location

Academics and students researching modern and contemporary social and cultural history

self-governance and negligence

this book is both modern and readable

but it has been excluded from the academic canon of Western music history

discussing the recoveries and reclamations made within urban and rural landscapes as a result of the redevelopment fallout

is designed to introduce Sidney's best-known work to a new generation of readers at the beginning

Locating the play in relation to the best recent criticism

three complex figure paintings from different moments in Rego’s oeuvre: The Policeman’s Daughter (1987)

Throughout the book