A Brief Supplemental Reading List

Victorian Masculinities


Adams, James Eli. Dandies and Desert Saints:  Styles of Victorian Masculinity.  Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University  Press, 1995.

"Benefits bestowed"?:  Education and British Imperialism.  Ed. J. A. Mangan.  Manchester; New York:  Manchester University Press; New York:  Distributed exclusively in the U.S.A. and Canada by St. Martin's Press, 1988.

Bivona, Daniel.  British Imperial Literature, 1870-1940:  Writing and the Administration of Empire.  Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Dellamora, Richard.  Masculine Desire:  The Sexual Politics of Victorian Aestheticism.  Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1990.

Dowling, Linda C.  Hellenism and Homosexuality in Victorian Oxford.  Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1994.

Green, Martin Burgess.  The Adventurous Male:  Chapters in the History of the White Male Mind.  University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993.

Hyam, Ronald.  Empire and Sexuality:  The British Experience.  Manchester; New York:  Manchester University Press; New York:  St. Martin's Press, 1990.

Imperialism and Popular Culture.  Edited by John M. MacKenzie.  Manchester; Dover, N.H.:  Manchester University Press, 1986.

Lane, Christopher.  The Burdens of Intimacy:  Psychoanalysis & Victorian Masculinity.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 1999.

Laqueur, Thomas Walter.  Making Sex:  Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud.  Cambridge, Mass.:  Harvard University Press, 1990.

Mangan, J. A.  Athleticism in the Victorian and Edwardian Public School:  The Emergence and Consolidation of an Educational Ideology.  Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981.

Manliness and Morality:  Middle-class Masculinity in Britain and America, 1800-1940.  Edited by J.A. Mangan & James Walvin.   Manchester:  Manchester University Press, 1987.

Muscular Christianity:  Embodying the Victorian Age.  Edited by Donald E. Hall.  Cambridge; New York:  Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Poovey, Mary.  Uneven Developments:  The Ideological Work of Gender in Mid-Victorian England.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 1988.

Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky.  Between Men:  English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire.  New York : Columbia University Press, 1985.

Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky.  Epistemology of the Closet.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.

Sexualities in Victorian Britain.  Edited by Andrew H. Miller and James Eli Adams.  Bloomington : Indiana University Press,  1996.

Silverman, Kaja.  Male Subjectivity at the Margins.  New York : Routledge, 1992.

Sinfield, Alan.  Cultural Politics-Queer Reading.  London:  Routledge, 1994.

__________.   The Wilde Century:  Effeminacy, Oscar Wilde, and the Queer Movement.  London:  Cassell, 1994.

Sussman, Herbert L.  Victorian Masculinities:  Manhood and Masculine Poetics in Early Victorian Literature and Art.  Cambridge; New York:  Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Waters, Karen Volland.  The Perfect Gentleman:  Masculine Control in Victorian Men's Fiction, 1870-1901.  New York:  P. Lang, 1997.


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