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This collection of specially commissioned essays provides the first social history of masculinity in the 'long eighteenth century'. Drawing on diaries, court records and prescriptive literature, it explores the different identities of late Stuart and Georgian men. The heterosexual fop, the homosexual, the polite gentleman, the blackguard, the man of religion, the reader of erotica and the violent aggressor are each examined here, and in the process a new and increasingly important field of historical enquiry is opened up to the non-specialist reader.The book opens with a substantial introducti

English literature - 18th century - History and criticism --- Masculinity in literature --- English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism --- Literature and society - Great Britain - History - 18th century --- Literature and society - Great Britain - History - 17th century --- English literature - Male authors - History and criticism --- Sex role in literature --- Men in literature --- English literature --- Literature and society --- Masculinity in literature. --- Sex role in literature. --- Men in literature. --- History and criticism. --- History --- Male authors --- Masculinity (Psychology) in literature --- History and criticism