This text explores artistic and intellectual expression in the classical world as the self-representation of man. It starts from the premise that the history of classical antiquity as the ancients tell it is a history of men.
This text explores artistic and intellectual expression in the classical world as the self-representation of man. It starts from the premise that the history of classical antiquity as the ancients tell it is a history of men.
This text explores artistic and intellectual expression in the classical world as the self-representation of man. It starts from the premise that the history of classical antiquity as the ancients tell it is a history of men.
This book focuses on men's bodies, emotions and material culture to offer a new understanding of masculinities in Britain in the long nineteenth century. Using objects as well as texts and images, it shows how idealised and ugly bodies, and the feelings they stimulated, helped c…
Uniquely covering literary, visual and performative expressions of culture, this volume aims to correlate the conjunctions of nation building, gender and representation in late 19th and early 20th century China and Japan. Focusing on gender formation, the chapters explore the ch…
Covering literary, visual and performative expressions of culture, this volume correlates the conjunctions of nation building, gender and representation in late 19th- and early 20th-century China and Japan.
Uniquely covering literary, visual and performative expressions of culture, this volume aims to correlate the conjunctions of nation building, gender and representation in late 19th and early 20th century China and Japan
Challenging clichés of Japanism as a feminine taste, 'Bachelor Japanists' argues that Japanese aesthetics were central to contests over the meanings of masculinity in the West. Christopher Reed draws attention to the queerness of Japanist communities of writers, collectors, cura…
Originating Japanism: Fin-de-siecle Paris -- Bachelor Brahmins: turn-of-the-century Boston -- Sublimation and eccentricity in the art of Mark Tobey: Seattle at midcentury -- On the End of Japanism
