British Masculinity in the 'Gentleman's Magazine', 1731 to 1815

by Gillian Williamson

Overview

The Gentleman's Magazine was the leading eighteenth-century periodical. By integrating the magazine's history, readers and contents this study shows how 'gentlemanliness' was reshaped to accommodate their social and political ambitions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137542328
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	11/25/2015
Series:	Genders and Sexualities in History
Edition description:	1st ed. 2016
Pages:	283
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.04(d)

About the Author

Gillian Williamson read Classics at the University of Cambridge, UK, and worked as a corporate finance adviser in London. She returned to academic study after editing a lottery-funded local history book, and also contributed to The Victoria History of Essex: Newport (2015).

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Gentlemanly Masculinity
2. The History of the Gentleman ' 's Magazine, 1731-1815
3. Readers and Contributors
4. Gentlemanly Masculinity in the Gentleman ' 's Magazine, 1731-1756
5. Gentlemanly Masculinity in the Gentleman ' 's Magazine, 1757-1789
6. Gentlemanly Masculinity in the Gentleman ' 's Magazine, 1790-1815
7. Conclusion

Editorial Reviews

Gillian Williamson’s fascinating book offers a sustained and detailed study of the Magazine’s readership and its changing ideas of the gentleman, from its foundation by Edward Cave in 1731 to the aftermath of Waterloo in 1815. … the Gentleman’s Magazine had been an aspirational publication for the ‘middling sort’, in which readers from the mercantile and professional classes fashioned the figure of the gentleman in their own image.” (Caroline Gonda, The BARS Review, Issue 49, 2017)

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