Manliness in Britain, 1760–1900 LAW / Litigation

Manliness in Britain, 1760–1900 LAW / LitigationThis book focuses on mens bodies, emotions and material culture to offer a new understanding of masculinities in Britain in the long nineteenth century. Using objects as well as texts and images, it shows how idealised and ugly bodies, and the feelings they stimulated, helped convey ideas about manliness and unmanliness across society.

Considered an early feminist classic

history of science and literary theory

visual art and popular music

economic and social environments

Gabriela Zapolska was an actor

Saudade in Brazilian Cinema looks specifically at how this emotion is imagined on the screen

not only when complete

rounded out by commentary

What does it mean to say that politics is personalised

In this collection of 17 essays

It suggests a way forward for rethinking the work that literary studies can do – less as a set of literary objects

Sometimes standing in for other cities or acting as a version of its own past