Conflicting masculinities : men in television period drama /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Byrne, Katherine (Editor), Leggott, James (Editor), Taddeo, Julie Anne (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, [2018]
Series:Library of gender and popular culture ; 22.
Subjects:
Table of 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.