Research Catalog

Title

Conflicting masculinities : men in television period drama / edited by Katherine Byrne, James Leggott and Julie Anne Taddeo.

Publication

• London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2018.
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

• Byrne, Katherine, 1978-
• Leggott, James
• Taddeo, Julie Anne

Description

xxi, 298 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Library of gender and popular culture ; 22

Uniform Title

Library of gender and popular culture ; 22.

Alternative Title

Men in television period drama

Subjects

• Masculinity on television
• History on television
• Performing Arts

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 278-295) and index.

Contents

pt. 1. The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. The Masculine Economies of Banished / James Ward -- 'I will not fight for my country ... for my ship ... my King ... or Captain': Redefining Imperial Masculinities in To the Ends of the Earth / Mark Fryers -- Television Costume Drama and the Eroticised, Regionalised Body: Poldark and Outlander / Gemma Goodman and Rachel Moseley -- Power and Passion: Seventeenth-Century Masculinities Dramatised on the BBC in the Twenty-First Century / Sarah Belts -- pt. 2. Visions of the Nineteenth Century. A Post-Feminist Hero: Sandy Welch's North and South / Sarah E. Fanning -- 'Because my daddy would protect them': Ripper Street's Edmund Reid and the Competing Demands of Home and Public Lives / Jessica Saxon -- 'Pleasure and pain, again and again' - Between Monstrosity and Inner Turmoil: The Representation of Masculinity in Penny Dreadful / Caroline Langhorst -- Pathological Masculinities: Syphilis and the Medical Profession in The Frankenstein Chronicles / Katherine Byrne --pt. 3. Masculinities from World War I to the Cold War. 'The war is done. Shut the door on it!': The Great War, Masculinity and Trauma in British Period Television / Julie Anne Taddeo -- A Minority of Men: The Conscientious Objector in Period Drama / Lucy Brown -- Cads, Cowards and Cowmen: Masculinity in Crisis in World War II Television Drama / Stella Hockenhull -- 'Have you seen Walliams' Bottom?: Detecting the 'Ordinary' Man in Partners in Crime / Louise FitzGerald -- 'No Need to Matronise Me!': The Crown, the Male Consort and Conflicted Masculinity / James Leggott.

Call Number

MWGS 19-321

ISBN

• 1788313356
• 9781788313353

OCLC

1020030058

Title

Conflicting masculinities : men in television period drama / edited by Katherine Byrne, James Leggott and Julie Anne Taddeo.

Publisher

London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2018.

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Library of gender and popular culture ; 22

Library of gender and popular culture ; 22.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 278-295) and index.

Added Author

Byrne, Katherine, 1978- editor.

Leggott, James, editor.

Taddeo, Julie Anne, editor.

Other Form:

Electronic version: 9781786724168

Research Call Number

MWGS 19-321