This thesis investigates the connection between militarism and manliness in the eighteenth century. By bringing a range of historical sources— including pamphlets, newspapers, and satirical prints— together with canonical literary and philosophical texts by Joseph Addison, David Hume, Adam Smith, Lawrence Sterne, Horace Walpole, and Henry Mackenzie, this study suggests that ‘old’ notions of a necessary connection between the male body and military service clashed with ‘new’ ideas of modem manliness in this period. However, this thesis does not construct a linear narrative of change; rather, it uncovers a debate in which public opinion became a crucial factor. The introduction indentifies the roots of the eighteenth-century military masculin...
Although the study of masculinity is now well established in the discipline of history, its impact h...
This thesis argues that British naval officers provide a useful category of analysis for social and ...
Studies of eighteenth-century British novels are typically centered on the alleged “rise” of the nov...
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Wiley via http://onlinel...
“Judging Empire” examines the culture of the British Army during its transformation from a national ...
Recently, masculinity has garnered much attention from scholars of eighteenth-century literature and...
PhDThis thesis is a social and material history of the British naval ship during the late eighteenth...
This collection explores the role of martial masculinities in shaping nineteenth-century British cul...
233 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1999.This thesis is concerned with...
This thesis argues that the officer establishment of the British Army experienced considerable profe...
This thesis examines the descriptions of Royalist and Parliamentarian masculinity in English Civil W...
The enchanting romances found throughout Jane Austen’s many novels constitute a significant source o...
My dissertation argues that eighteenth-century England\u27s emergence as a commercial and a bourgeoi...
The early modern era has often been interpreted by both historians and the general public as a trans...
“Judging Empire” examines the culture of the British Army during its transformation from a national ...
Although the study of masculinity is now well established in the discipline of history, its impact h...
This thesis argues that British naval officers provide a useful category of analysis for social and ...
Studies of eighteenth-century British novels are typically centered on the alleged “rise” of the nov...
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Wiley via http://onlinel...
“Judging Empire” examines the culture of the British Army during its transformation from a national ...
Recently, masculinity has garnered much attention from scholars of eighteenth-century literature and...
PhDThis thesis is a social and material history of the British naval ship during the late eighteenth...
This collection explores the role of martial masculinities in shaping nineteenth-century British cul...
233 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1999.This thesis is concerned with...
This thesis argues that the officer establishment of the British Army experienced considerable profe...
This thesis examines the descriptions of Royalist and Parliamentarian masculinity in English Civil W...
The enchanting romances found throughout Jane Austen’s many novels constitute a significant source o...
My dissertation argues that eighteenth-century England\u27s emergence as a commercial and a bourgeoi...
The early modern era has often been interpreted by both historians and the general public as a trans...
“Judging Empire” examines the culture of the British Army during its transformation from a national ...
Although the study of masculinity is now well established in the discipline of history, its impact h...
This thesis argues that British naval officers provide a useful category of analysis for social and ...
Studies of eighteenth-century British novels are typically centered on the alleged “rise” of the nov...