British Masculinity in the 'Gentleman's Magazine', 1731 to 1815
Gillian Williamson
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Description for British Masculinity in the 'Gentleman's Magazine', 1731 to 1815
Hardcover. The Gentleman's Magazine was the leading eighteenth-century periodical. By integrating the magazine's history, readers and contents this study shows how 'gentlemanliness' was reshaped to accommodate their social and political ambitions. Series: Genders and Sexualities in History. Num Pages: 294 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; JFSJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 21. Weight in Grams: 496.
The Gentleman's Magazine was the leading eighteenth-century periodical. By integrating the magazine's history, readers and contents this study shows how 'gentlemanliness' was reshaped to accommodate their social and political ambitions.
The Gentleman's Magazine was the leading eighteenth-century periodical. By integrating the magazine's history, readers and contents this study shows how 'gentlemanliness' was reshaped to accommodate their social and political ambitions.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Series
Genders and Sexualities in History
Number of Pages
283
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137542328
SKU
V9781137542328
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Gillian Williamson
Gillian Williamson read Classics at the University of Cambridge, UK, and worked as a corporate finance adviser in London. She returned to academic study after editing a lottery-funded local history book, and also contributed to The Victoria History of Essex: Newport (2015).
Reviews for British Masculinity in the 'Gentleman's Magazine', 1731 to 1815
“Gillian Williamson’s fascinating book offers a sustained and detailed study of the Magazine’s readership and its changing ideas of the gentleman, from its foundation by Edward Cave in 1731 to the aftermath of Waterloo in 1815. … the Gentleman’s Magazine had been an aspirational publication for the ‘middling sort’, in which readers from the mercantile and professional classes fashioned the ... Read more