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… the period. Practices > Politics & Society Concepts > Character Concepts > Social interaction Mots-clés Literature Masculinity Rank Violence The term ‘rake’, short for ‘rakehell’, has been used to describe a licentious man of loose … Englishmen and women go well beyond the bounds of fiction. In fact, the archetype embodies a specific form of masculinity that resonates with the historical reality of the period: the figure’s potential for social disruption as an … themselves of their superiority. Like their Restoration forefathers, the Georgian rakes are the illustration of a masculinity and male sociability in crisis, at a time when what it meant to be a man, and a man of high standing, was …

… briefly sketched here. Practices > Politics & Society Mots-clés Antagonism Aristocracy Disorder Gentleman Honour Law Masculinity Mundanity Religion Duelling was not simply an English affair, but also a social practice indulged in and … texts of 1610, the other one being Thomas Middleton’s The Peace-Maker . These texts attacked both duels and the masculinity which they were supposed to embody, and framed the debate for the years to come. They placed duels in the … Bond, 5 vols (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1965). … Antagonism … Aristocracy … Disorder … Gentleman … Honour … Law … Masculinity … Mundanity … Religion … Duelling …

… focus on manners and social behavior. Places > Clubs & Societies People > Association Mots-clés Blasphemy Clubs Masculinity sexe Few social phenomena have managed to capture the eighteenth-century imagination like the rise of secret … University Press, 2010). Mannix, Daniel P., The Hell-Fire Club (New York: Ballantine Books, 1959). … Blasphemy … Clubs … Masculinity … Sex … Hell-fire Clubs …

… altogether darker twin of polite society. Concepts > Feelings & Emotions Concepts > Publicity Mots-clés Clans Gentleman Masculinity Rake Violence Historians have pondered the concomitant if not paradoxical entanglement of politeness and … Winton, Calhoun, John Gay and the London Theatre (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1993). … Clans … Gentleman … Masculinity … Rake … Violence … Mohock scare …

… Writing and Imaginative Geography, 1600-1830 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999). Cohen, Michèle, Fashioning Masculinity: National identity and language in the eighteenth century (London: Routledge, 1996). ____________‘The Grand … History of Education (vol. 21, n° 3, 1992), p. 241-57. ____________‘The Grand Tour: Language, National Identity and Masculinity’, Changing English 8:2 (2001), pp. 129-41. Gallagher, John, Learning languages in early modern England (Oxford University Press, 2019). Goldsmith, Sarah, Masculinity and Danger on the Eighteenth-Century Grand Tour (University of London Press, Institute of Historical …

… Boxing: A Cultural History (London: Reaktion Books, 2008) Downing, Karen, ‘The Gentleman Boxer: Boxing, Manners, and Masculinity in Eighteenth-Century England’, Men and Masculinities [2008] (vol. 12, n°3, 2010 ), p. 328-352. Gilmartin, … Cultures (1650-1850) (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018) Whale, John, ‘Daniel Mendoza’s Contests of Identity: Masculinity, Ethnicity and Nation in Georgian Prize-fighting’, Romanticism (vol. 14, n° 3, 2008), p. 259-271. In the … Boxing: A Cultural History (London: Reaktion Books, 2008) Downing, Karen, ‘The Gentleman Boxer: Boxing, Manners, and Masculinity in Eighteenth-Century England’, Men and Masculinities [2008] (vol. 12, n°3, 2010 ), p. 328-352. Gilmartin, …

… final departure from England in 1816. Like the fop, the buck, and the flâneur, the dandy is a fashionable embodiment of masculinity. As a type or a pose, he gained currency in the nineteenth century. Young men were quick to copy Brummell’s … Références complémentaires Adams, James Eli, Dandies and Desert Saints: Styles of Victorian Masculinity (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995). Beerbohm, Max, 'Dandies and Dandies',   The Works of Max Beerbohm … Charles Baudelaire turned him into a mythical icon. … Adams, James Eli, Dandies and Desert Saints: Styles of Victorian Masculinity (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995). Beerbohm, Max, 'Dandies and Dandies',   The Works of Max Beerbohm …