Man's Estate: Landed Gentry Masculinities, 1660-1900

by Henry French and Mark Rothery

Masculinity is an expanding area of gender history. Man's Estate is the first book to focus on a particular social group, the English landed gentry, and to cover a time span of several hundred years. The authors move beyond the study of printed conduct literature, which dominated earlier accounts, by examining the values expressed in family correspondence in order to get closer to social practices. Letters between parents, children, siblings, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199576696
• ISBN13: 9780199576692
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"