A Genealogy of the Gentleman: Women Writers and Masculinity in the Eighteenth Century by Harris, Mary Beth
A Genealogy of the Gentleman: Women Writers and Masculinity in the Eighteenth Century by Harris, Mary Beth

A Genealogy of the Gentleman: Women Writers and Masculinity in the Eighteenth Century

A Genealogy of the Gentleman argues that eighteenth-century women writers made key interventions in modern ideals of...
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Author: Mary Beth Harris
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Language: English
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A Genealogy of the Gentleman: Women Writers and Masculinity in the Eighteenth Century by Harris, Mary Beth

A Genealogy of the Gentleman: Women Writers and Masculinity in the Eighteenth Century

Dhs. 457.61
A Genealogy of the Gentleman: Women Writers and Masculinity in the Eighteenth Century by Harris, Mary Beth

A Genealogy of the Gentleman: Women Writers and Masculinity in the Eighteenth Century

Dhs. 457.61
Author: Mary Beth Harris
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
A Genealogy of the Gentleman argues that eighteenth-century women writers made key interventions in modern ideals of masculinity and authorship through their narrative constructions of the gentleman. It challenges two latent critical assumptions: first, that the gentleman's masculinity is normative, private, and therefore oppositional to concepts of performance; and second, that women writers, from their disadvantaged position within a patriarchal society, had no real means of influencing dominant structures of masculinity. By placing writers such as Mary Davys, Eliza Haywood, Charlotte Lennox, Elizabeth Inchbald, and Mary Robinson in dialogue with canonical representatives of the gentleman author--Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, David Hume, Samuel Johnson, and Samuel Richardson--Mary Beth Harris shows how these women carved out a space for their literary authority not by overtly opposing their male critics and society's patriarchal structure, but by rewriting the persona of the gentleman as a figure whose very desirability and appeal were dependent on women's influence. Ultimately, this project considers the import of these women writers' legacy, both progressive and conservative, on hegemonic standards of masculinity that persist to this day.


Author: Mary Beth Harris
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Published: 03/15/2024
Pages: 252
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781644533284

About the Author

Mary Beth Harris is assistant professor at Emporia State University where she teaches English and serves as the Director of the Composition Program. Her book A Genealogy of the Gentleman: Women Writers and Masculinity in the Eighteenth-Century was published March 2024 by University of Delaware Press. Her other most recent work can be found in Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, and The Eighteenth Century, as well as in two edited collections, Castration, Impotence, and Emasculation in the Long Eighteenth Century and A Spy on Eliza Haywood: Addresses to a Multifarious Writer.




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