Dandies and Desert Saints: Modernity and the Memory Crisis

by James Eli Adams

Book Overview

A Choice "Outstanding Academic Book for 1996"While drawing on work in feminism, queer theory, and cultural history, Dandies and Desert Saints challenges scholars to rethink simplistic notions of Victorian manhood. James Eli Adams examines masculine identity in Victorian literature from Thomas Carlyle through Oscar Wilde, analyzing authors who identify the age's ideal of manhood as the power of self-discipline. What distinguishes Adams's book from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801482089
• ISBN13: 9780801482083
• Release Date: December 1995
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher