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Leading with the Chin focuses on the Esquire writings of James Baldwin, Truman Capote, Raymond Carver, Don DeLillo, Norman Mailer, and Tim O'Brien to examine how these authors negotiated important shifts in American masculinity. Using the works of these six authors as case studies, Leading with the Chin argues that Esquire permitted writers to confront national fantasies of American masculinity as they were impacted by the rise of neoliberalism, civil rights and gay rights, and the cultural dominance of the professional-managerial class. Applying the methodologies of periodical studies and the theoretical concerns of masculinity studies, this book recontextualizes the prose and fiction of these authors by analyzing them in the material context of the magazine. Relating each author's articulation of masculinity to the advertisements, editorials, and articles published in each issue, Leading with the Chin shows that Esquire reflected and helped to shape the forces that structured American masculinity in the twentieth century.

American literature --- Masculinity in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Esquire. --- American literature. --- Esquire. --- advertising. --- magazines. --- manhood. --- manliness. --- masculinities. --- masculinity. --- material culture. --- periodicals. --- popular culture. --- postmodernism. --- print culture.

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Leading with the Chin focuses on the Esquire writings of James Baldwin, Truman Capote, Raymond Carver, Don DeLillo, Norman Mailer, and Tim O'Brien to examine how these authors negotiated important shifts in American masculinity. Using the works of these six authors as case studies, Leading with the Chin argues that Esquire permitted writers to confront national fantasies of American masculinity as they were impacted by the rise of neoliberalism, civil rights and gay rights, and the cultural dominance of the professional-managerial class. Applying the methodologies of periodical studies and the theoretical concerns of masculinity studies, this book recontextualizes the prose and fiction of these authors by analyzing them in the material context of the magazine. Relating each author's articulation of masculinity to the advertisements, editorials, and articles published in each issue, Leading with the Chin shows that Esquire reflected and helped to shape the forces that structured American masculinity in the twentieth century.

American literature --- Masculinity in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Esquire. --- American literature. --- advertising. --- magazines. --- manhood. --- manliness. --- masculinities. --- masculinity. --- material culture. --- periodicals. --- popular culture. --- postmodernism. --- print culture.

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Perkins, Elizabeth, -- wife of Edmund Perkins, Esquire -- Trials, litigation, etc --- Perkins, Edmund -- Trials, litigation, etc --- Custody of children -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800

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Mortimer, Thomas, -- 1730-1810 --- Hatton, Michael, -- Esquire --- Bath, Thomas Thynne, -- Marquis of, -- 1734-1796 --- Wood, Robert, -- ca. 1717?-1771 --- Sale of public office -- Great Britain --- Jurisdiction (International law) --- Fraud --- Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1760-1789 --- Diplomatic and consular service, British -- Flanders -- Corrupt practices

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The central theme of this book is the largely untold story of English knighthood's ongoing obsession with the crusade fight during the age of Chaucer, "high chivalry" and the famous battles of the Hundred Years War. After combat in France and Scotland, fighting crusades was the main and a widespread experience of English chivalry in the fourteenth century, drawing in noblemen of the highest rank, as well as knights chasing renown and the jobbing esquire. The author exposes a thick seam of military engagement along the perimeters of Christendom; details of participants and campaigns are chronicled - in many cases for the first time - and associated matters of tactics, diplomacy, organisation, and recruitment are minutely analysed, adding substantially to the historiography of the later crusades. The book's second theme traces the surprisingly strong grip the crusade-idea possessed at the height of politics, as an animating force of English kingship. Disputing the common assumption that crusade plans were increasingly ill-treated by the monarchs - adopted as diplomatic double-speak or as a means of raiding church coffers - the author argues that courtiers and knights moved in a rich environment of crusade speculation and ambition, and exercised a strong influence on the culture of the time. -- Publisher's website

Crusades --- Chivalry --- Croisades --- Chevaliers et chevalerie --- Participation, British --- History. --- Participation britannique --- Histoire --- Great Britain --- England --- Grande-Bretagne --- Angleterre --- History --- Politics and government --- Social conditions --- Politique et gouvernement --- Conditions sociales --- Chevalerie --- Participation britannique. --- Participation, British. --- Manners and customs --- Orders of knighthood and chivalry --- Civilization, Medieval --- Courtly love --- Feudalism --- Heraldry --- Knights and knighthood --- Church history --- Middle Ages --- Chaucer. --- Crusades. --- English knighthood. --- France. --- Hundred Years War. --- Medieval Europe. --- Scotland. --- analysis. --- animating force. --- anthropology. --- campaigns. --- chicalry. --- combat. --- courtiers. --- crusade fight. --- crusade speculation. --- culture. --- diplomacy. --- esquire. --- fourteenth century. --- knights. --- medieval history. --- middle ages. --- military engagement. --- noblemen. --- organisation. --- participants. --- politics. --- recruitment. --- religion. --- research. --- study. --- tactics. --- tradition. --- war. --- Social life and customs