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Author:   Declan Kavanagh
Publisher:   Bucknell University Press
Imprint:   Bucknell University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.40cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.30cm
Weight:   0.399kg
ISBN:  

9781611488265

ISBN 10:   1611488265
Pages:   268
Publication Date:   05 November 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction: Effeminate Years Chapter 1: “HERCULES, turn’d Beau”: Charles Churchill’s Satire Chapter 2: Enlightenment Closets: Publishing Privacy Chapter 3: Mobocracy: Public Opinion and the Free Press Chapter 4: Bog Men: Celtic Landscapes during the Seven Years’ War Chapter 5: Effeminate Aesthetics and Backstairs Politics Coda Bibliography About the Author

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Kavanagh (Univ. of Kent, UK) presents an investigation into the twilight world of gender/sex-fluid men-referred to as, among other monikers, sodomites, catamites, and mollies-during Britain's Georgian period. Kavanagh's critical examination of the works of Charles Churchill, Edmund Burke, John Wilkes, and others illuminates the role effeminacy played in shaping discourse of the day. Kavanagh's embedded thesis is that fluid identity and outre sexual practices of this period challenged the era's sensibilities and set the precedent for current efforts to broaden gender and sexual categorizations. In this regard, Kavanagh's book complements extant research on the subject. Kavanagh's obvious authority on the subject matter qualifies him for inclusion among the field's most credible scholars.... [T]he book's value to English history, literary studies, and gender and sexuality studies stands unquestioned. Summing Up: Essential. Researchers and faculty. * CHOICE *

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Declan Kavanagh is lecturer in eighteenth-century studies and director of the Centre for Gender, Sexuality, and Writing at the University of Kent.

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