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Effeminate Years: Literature, Politics, and Aesthetics in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain

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Effeminate Years: Literature, Politics, and Aesthetics in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain - Kavanagh, Declan
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Effeminate Years: Literature, Politics, and Aesthetics in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain investigates the gendered, eroticized, and xenophobic ways in which the controversies in the 1760s surrounding the political figure John Wilkes (1725-97) legitimated some men as political subjects, while forcefully excluding others on the basis of their perceived effeminacy or foreignness. However, this book is not a literary analysis of the Wilkes affair in the 1760s, nor is it a linear account of Wilkes's political career. Instead, ...

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Effeminate Years: Literature, Politics, and Aesthetics in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain 2019, Bucknell University Press, Cranbury

ISBN-13: 9781611488265

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Effeminate Years: Literature, Politics, and Aesthetics in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain 2017, Bucknell University Press, Cranbury

ISBN-13: 9781611488241

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