Defoe's Writings and Manliness: Contrary Men (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780754656050)

Defoe's Writings and Manliness is a timely intervention in Defoe studies and in the study of masculinity in eighteenth-century literature more generally. Arguing that Defoe's writings insistently returned to the issues of manliness and its contrary effeminacy, this book reveals how his writings drew upon and repeatedly tested the complex and diverse range of discourses through which masculinity was discussed in the period.

Author: Stephen H. Gregg
ISBN-10: 0754656055
ISBN-13: 9780754656050
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 10/14/2009
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.04lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d