Man-Milliners and Militias: A History of Eighteenth-Century British Masculinity (Online)

From the restrained and polished Polite Man and the sensitive Man of Feeling, to the sartorially extravagant Macaroni and the 'husbands and wives' of Molly Houses, the eighteenth century was host to a wide, and often contradictory, array of masculine ideals, stereotypes and performances. So, what made a man in eighteenth-century Britain? How important were the cultural representations of masculinity, and how did individual men perceive and perform their maleness?

Source-led, this course interrogates these questions in relation to the history of British masculinity across the long eighteenth century, exploring how concepts and experiences of masculinity were, and remain, tightly enmeshed with the social, cultural and political histories of a country, period and social group.

Credit Level: 11 Year taken: Postgraduate SCQF Credits: 20