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Book The Danger of Too Great an Indulgence of Speculative Opinions

Download or read book The Danger of Too Great an Indulgence of Speculative Opinions written by Charles Powlett and published by . This book was released on 1792 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Duty and Desire Book Club Edition

Download or read book Duty and Desire Book Club Edition written by Anju Gattani and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-27 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To uphold family honor and tradition, Sheetal Prasad is forced to forsake the man she loves and marry playboy millionaire Rakesh Dhanraj while the citizens of Raigun, India, watch in envy. On her wedding night, however, Sheetal quickly learns that the stranger she married is as cold as the marble floors of the Dhanraj mansion. Forced to smile at family members and cameras and pretend there's nothing wrong with her marriage, Sheetal begins to discover that the family she married into harbors secrets, lies and deceptions powerful enough to tear apart her world. With no one to rely on and no escape, Sheetal must ally with her husband in an attempt to protect her infant son from the tyranny of his family.sion.

Book Thinks I to myself

Download or read book Thinks I to myself written by Edward Nares and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book What is Masculinity

Download or read book What is Masculinity written by J. Arnold and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-06-14 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across history, the ideas and practices of male identity have varied much between time and place: masculinity proves to be a slippery concept, not available to all men, sometimes even applied to women. This book analyses the dynamics of 'masculinity' as both an ideology and lived experience - how men have tried, and failed, to be 'Real Men'.

Book English Masculinities  1660 1800

Download or read book English Masculinities 1660 1800 written by Tim Hitchcock and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-30 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of specially commissioned essays provides the first social history of masculinity in the ‘long eighteenth century’. Drawing on diaries, court records and prescriptive literature, it explores the different identities of late Stuart and Georgian men. The heterosexual fop, the homosexual, the polite gentleman, the blackguard, the man of religion, the reader of erotica and the violent aggressor are each examined here, and in the process a new and increasingly important field of historical enquiry is opened up to the non-specialist reader. The book opens with a substantial introduction by the Editors. This provides readers with a detailed context for the chapters which follow. The core of the book is divided into four main parts looking at sociability, virtue and friendship, violence, and sexuality. Within this framework each chapter forms a self-contained unit, with its own methodology, sources and argument. The chapters address issues such as the correlations between masculinity and Protestantism; masculinity, Englishness and taciturnity; and the impact of changing representations of homosexual desire on the social organisation of heterosexuality. Misogyny, James Boswell's self-presentation, the literary and metaphorical representation of the body, the roles of gossip and violence in men's lives, are each addressed in individual chapters. The volume is concluded by a wide-ranging synoptic essay by John Tosh, which sets a new agenda for the history of masculinity. An extensive guide to further reading is also provided. Designed for students, academics and the general reader alike, this collection of essays provides a wide-ranging and accessible framework within which to understand eighteenth-century men. Because of the variety of approaches and conclusions it contains, and because this is the first attempt to bring together a comprehensive set of writings on the social history of eighteenth-century masculinity, this volume does something quite new. It de-centres and problematises the male ‘standard’ and explores the complex and disparate masculinites enacted by the men of this period. This will be essential reading for anyone interested in eighteenth-century British social history.

Book Household Politics

Download or read book Household Politics written by Don Herzog and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contends that, though early modern English canonical sources and sermons often urge the subordination of women, this was not indicative of public life, and that husbands, wives and servants often struggled over authority in the household.

Book Anxious Masculinity in Early Modern England

Download or read book Anxious Masculinity in Early Modern England written by Mark Breitenberg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-03-14 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the importance of heterosexual masculine identity in Renaissance literature and culture.

Book Order and Disorder in Early Modern England

Download or read book Order and Disorder in Early Modern England written by Anthony Fletcher and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987-06-04 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book attempts both to take stock of directions in the field and to suggest alternative perspectives on some central aspects of the period.

Book Love  Intimacy and Power

Download or read book Love Intimacy and Power written by Katie Barclay and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2012 Senior Hume Brown Prize in Scottish History and the 2012 Women's History Network (UK) Book Prize Through an analysis of the correspondence of over one hundred couples from the Scottish elites across the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, this book explores how ideas around the nature of emotional intimacy, love and friendship within marriage adapted to a modernising economy and society. Patriarchy continued to be the central model for marriage across the period and as a result, women found spaces to hold power within the family, but could not translate it to power beyond the household. Comparing the Scottish experience to that across Europe and North America, Barclay shows that throughout the eighteenth century, far from being a side-note in European history, Scottish ideas about gender and marriage became culturally dominant. Now available in paperback, this book will be vital to those studying and teaching Scottish social history, and those interested in the history of marriage and gender. It will also appeal to feminists interested in the history of patriarchy. 'An important and original study' WHN Book Prize 2012 Judges

Book The Independent Man

    Book Details:
  • Author : Matthew McCormack
  • Publisher : Manchester University Press
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9780719070549
  • Pages : 244 pages

Download or read book The Independent Man written by Matthew McCormack and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Georgian England, independence was associated with manly virtue and physical vigour. Fundamentally, the political world was thought to consist of "independent men" exercising their consciences and standing up for the general good. As such, Georgians thought about political action and masculine virtue very differently to the ways in which we do today.

Book Women in Business  1700 1850

Download or read book Women in Business 1700 1850 written by Nicola Jane Phillips and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2006 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reappraisal of the business enterprises of women in the `long' eighteenth century, showing them to be more flourishing than previously thought.

Book Manhood in Early Modern England

Download or read book Manhood in Early Modern England written by Elizabeth A Foyster and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to focus on the relationships which men formed with their wives in early modern England, making it an important contribution to a new understanding of English, social, family, and gender history. Dr Foyster redresses the balance of historical research which has largely concentrated on the public lives of prominent men. The book looks at youth and courtship before marriage, male fears of their wives' gossip and sexual betrayal, and male friendships before and after marriage. Highlighted throughout is the importance of sexual reputation. Based on both legal records and fictional sources, this is a fascinating insight into the personal lives of ordinary men and women in early modern England.

Book The Middle Sort of People in Provincial England  1600 1750

Download or read book The Middle Sort of People in Provincial England 1600 1750 written by H. R. French and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-07-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the origins of 'middle-class' status in the English provinces during a formative period of social and economic change, this book provides the first comparative study of the nature of social identity in early modern provincial England. It questions definitions of a 'middling' group, united by shared patterns of consumption and display, and examines the bases for such identity in three detailed case studies of the 'middle sort' in East Anglia, Lancashire, and Dorset. Dr. French identifies how the 'middling' described their status, and examines this through their social position in parish life and government, and through their material possessions. Instead of a coherent, unified 'middle sort of people' this book reveals division between self-proclaimed parish rulers (the 'chief inhabitants') and a wider body of modestly prosperous householders, who nevertheless shared social perspectives bounded within their localities. By the eighteenth century, many of these 'chief inhabitants' were trying to break out of their parish pecking orders - not by associating with a wider 'middle class', but by modifying ideas of gentility to suit their circumstances (and pockets). French concludes as a result, that while the presence of a distinct 'middling' stratum is apparent, the social identity of the people remained fragmented - restricted by parochial society on the one hand, and overshadowed by the prospect of gentility on the other. He offers new interpretation and insights into the composition and scale of the society in early modern England.

Book The Self Perception of Early Modern Capitalists

Download or read book The Self Perception of Early Modern Capitalists written by M. Jacob and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays by leading historians of early modern Europe and the U.S., this books explores how merchants, entrepreneurs, and other early modern capitalists viewed themselves.

Book The Family in Early Modern England

Download or read book The Family in Early Modern England written by Helen Berry and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-12-06 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text provides an assessment of the most important research published in the past three decades on the English family.