By Stephen H. Gregg

ISBN-10: 0754656055

ISBN-13: 9780754656050

Defoe's Writings and Manliness is a well timed intervention in Defoe reviews and within the learn of masculinity in eighteenth-century literature extra typically. Arguing that Defoe's writings insistently again to the problems of manliness and its opposite, effeminacy, this ebook finds how he drew upon a fancy and various diversity of discourses by which masculinity was once mentioned within the interval. it really is for that reason that this e-book crosses over and strikes among sleek paradigms for the research of eighteenth-century masculinity to evaluate Defoe's males. a mix of Defoe's readability of imaginative and prescient, a spirit of contrariness and a streak of ethical didacticism ended in an idiosyncratic and stressed trying out of the forces surrounding his period's principles of manliness. Defoe's males are males, yet they're by no means unproblematically so: they exhibit a contrariness which shows failure of manliness is rarely very some distance away.

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