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Structures of confinement: power and problems of male identity
- Abstract:
- Both the ‘hidden history’ of men’s mental health and the perceived pressures of ‘modern’ life in the nineteenth century have been the subject of recent historiographic exploration. Of emerging importance is the extent to which forms of power – institutional, political, social – underwrite and structure male identity. This introduction maps out the landscape of a New Agenda that views male experience through the dual lenses of power and confinement, highlighting the far-reaching implications of the restraints placed upon middle-class men – socially, ideologically, and physically – by a changing social and medical landscape, from the early Victorian period to the final decades of the century more commonly associated with the onset of modernity. The essays that follow will explore the confining apparatuses of male-dominated professional spheres and identify points of resistance in the form of textual reflection and self-fashioning. From the walls of the asylum, to the constraints of professional life, to the ideals of literary production, these essays expose the biopolitics of these structures of confinement while demonstrating that such frameworks provided space, in some cases, for revisionist assertions of masculine selfhood.
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1093/jvcult/vcy074
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- Oxford University Press
- Journal:
- Journal of Victorian Culture More from this journal
- Volume:
- 24
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 137-145
- Publication date:
- 2019-03-31
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-12-19
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1750-0133
- ISSN:
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1355-5502
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English
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2019-04-03
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- Leeds Trinity University
- Copyright date:
- 2019
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- © 2019 Leeds Trinity University. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact [email protected]
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