Masculinities in Victorian Painting

This fully illustrated study examines the construction of masculinity in culture based on an analysis of pictorial representations of the male in a wide range of contexts: social, historical, legal, literary, institutional, anthropological, educational, marital, imperial and aesthetic.

Joseph A. Kestner

Contents: List of Plates; Acknowledgements; Artistic Representation and the Construction of Masculinity; The Classical Hero; The Gallant Knight; The Challenged Paterfamilias; The Valiant Soldier; The Male Nude; Bibliography; Index.