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03159aam a2200397 i 4500 001 F9DE2F7E6B5311E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160826010517 008 150629t20162016enk b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2015021882 020 $a 1137542322 020 $a 9781137542328 035 $a (OCoLC)934618712 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c PUL $d OCLCO $d YDXCP $d IWA $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk--- 050 00 $a PN5130 G5 W55 2016 100 1 $a Williamson, Gillian, $e author. 245 10 $a British masculinity in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1731 to 1815 / $c Gillian Williamson (Independent Scholar, UK). 264 1 $a Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; $b Palgrave Macmillan, $c 2016. 300 $a xi, 283 pages ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a Genders and sexualities in history 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 250-270) and index. 505 0 $a Gentlemanly masculinity -- The history of the Gentleman's Magazine, 1731-1815 -- Readers and contributors -- Gentlemanly masculinity in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1731-1756 -- Gentlemanly masculinity in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1757-1789 -- Gentlemanly masculinity in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1790-1815. 520 $a "Launched in 1731, the monthly Gentleman's Magazine was the dominant periodical of the eighteenth century, drawing its large readership from across the literate population of Great Britain and the English-speaking world. Its readers were highly responsive. By the 1740s their letters, poems and family announcements, especially obituaries, filled at least half its pages, sitting alongside articles by a circle that included Samuel Johnson. It was a Georgian social network as readers engaged in a continuous dialogue with each other, but not all these readers were as comfortably established as gentlemen as the title implied. This study traces how, from launch to the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, the magazine developed as a vehicle for the creation and national dissemination of a new middling-sort masculine gentlemanliness in a Britain that was increasingly commercial, fluid and open. It was an accessible gentlemanliness based on an ideology of merit through occupational success allied to personal probity. From the close of the Seven Year's War in 1763 the magazine used the merit of the self-made man to challenge the aristocratic ruling class. It was therefore a major contributor to the development of Victorian middle-class identity. Indeed, the meritorious self-made man remains one of the bulwarks of Conservative thought today"-- $c Provided by publisher. 630 00 $a Gentleman's magazine (London, England) 650 0 $a Masculinity in literature. 650 0 $a Masculinity $z Great Britain $x History $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Middle class men $z Great Britain $x History $y 18th century. 650 0 $a English periodicals $x History $y 18th century. 651 0 $a Great Britain $x Intellectual life $y 18th century. 830 0 $a Genders and sexualities in history. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826043128.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F9DE2F7E6B5311E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search