What is it about?
This article explores the ways in which men's bodies were used to evaluate manliness and manly qualities in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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Why is it important?
It is important because it shows the ways in which the ideal manly body changed over the two centuries and because it proposes that these were not values than only had meaning for upper class men. Elite men valorised and emulated idealised working-class men’s bodies and working-class men used classically-inspired figures to represent themselves when formulating class and gender identities
Perspectives
This is one of my favourite articles to work on because it is a showcase of the new direction my research is taking, into the relationship between bodies, emotions, and material culture.
Professor Joanne Begiato
Oxford Brookes University
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This page is a summary of: BETWEEN POISE AND POWER: EMBODIED MANLINESS IN EIGHTEENTH- AND NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITISH CULTURE, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, September 2016, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s0080440116000086.
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