1st Edition
Pope, Homer, and Manliness Some Aspects of Eighteenth Century Classical Learning
By Carolyn D. Williams
Copyright 1993
240 Pages
by
Routledge
234 Pages
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Routledge
234 Pages
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Routledge
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The author here reassesses the concept of ‘masculinity’, and argues that it cannot be seen as an absolute standard, but only as the product of perpetual conflict between competing and unstable models.
The argument is sustained by a close reading of the problematic conflict between gendered values in eighteenth-century classical learning. Pope’s Homer ensured the continuation of the tradition... Read more
Introduction Part 1: Manliness in early modern Britain 1. Manliness and the Body Politic 2. Manly Learning Part 2: Gender in Pope’s Homer 3. Manly Ways 4. Father of Virtue 5. The Other Sex 6. The Judgment of Ladies Part 3: The Poet Speaks 7. My Country’s Poet
Biography
Carolyn D. Williams
