Fashioning masculinity : national identity and language in the eighteenth century

The Resource Fashioning masculinity : national identity and language in the eighteenth century

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Fashioning masculinity : national identity and language in the eighteenth century

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national identity and language in the eighteenth century

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Michèle Cohen

Language

eng

Summary

The fashioning of English gentlemen in the eighteenth century was modelled on French practices of sociability and conversation. Michele Cohen shows how at the same time, the English constructed their cultural relations with the French as relations of seduction and desire. She argues that this produced anxiety on the part of the English over the effect of French practices on English masculinity and the virtue of English women. By the end of the century, representing the French as an effeminate other was integral to the forging of English, masculine national identity. Michele Cohen examines the

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N$T

Dewey number

155.3/32/0941

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index present

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English

LC call number

PR448.N38

LC item number

C64 1996eb

Literary form

non fiction

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dictionaries
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