Letters Addressed to a Young Man, on His First Entrance Into Life, Etc
Author : Jane West
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Page : 412 pages
File Size : 34,99 MB
Release : 1801
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Author : Jane West
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Page : 412 pages
File Size : 34,99 MB
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Author : Jane West
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Page : 420 pages
File Size : 36,88 MB
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Author : Jane West
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Page : 420 pages
File Size : 30,22 MB
Release : 1801
Category : Conduct of life
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Author : Mrs. West (Jane)
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Page : 404 pages
File Size : 40,21 MB
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Category : Conduct of life
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Author : Jane West
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Page : 420 pages
File Size : 16,59 MB
Release : 1803
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Page : 64 pages
File Size : 16,34 MB
Release : 1842
Category : Young men
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Author : William DAVIS (Member of the Mathematical and Philosophical Society, London.)
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Page : 210 pages
File Size : 12,29 MB
Release : 1806
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Author : Abraham CROCKER
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Page : 368 pages
File Size : 13,93 MB
Release : 1817
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Author : Elizabeth Helme
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Page : 322 pages
File Size : 33,52 MB
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Author : David Kuchta
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 11,75 MB
Release : 2002-05-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0520921399
In 1666, King Charles II felt it necessary to reform Englishmen's dress by introducing a fashion that developed into the three-piece suit. We learn what inspired this royal revolution in masculine attire--and the reasons for its remarkable longevity--in David Kuchta's engaging and handsomely illustrated account. Between 1550 and 1850, Kuchta says, English upper- and middle-class men understood their authority to be based in part upon the display of masculine character: how they presented themselves in public and demonstrated their masculinity helped define their political legitimacy, moral authority, and economic utility. Much has been written about the ways political culture, religion, and economic theory helped shape ideals and practices of masculinity. Kuchta allows us to see the process working in reverse, in that masculine manners and habits of consumption in a patriarchal society contributed actively to people's understanding of what held England together. Kuchta shows not only how the ideology of modern English masculinity was a self-consciously political and public creation but also how such explicitly political decisions and values became internalized, personalized, and naturalized into everyday manners and habits.