Effeminate Years: Literature, Politics, and Aesthetics in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain
- Submitting institution
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The University of Kent
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 8366
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Bucknell University Press
- ISBN
- 9781611488241
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- Effeminate Years is the first book-length examination of effeminacy across the terrain of eighteenth-century literature, politics, and aesthetics. It is a lengthy study (over 80,000 words), which took seven years to complete. It draws upon archival sources in libraries (U.K. and Ireland); including periodicals, pamphlets, treatises, novels, poetry, and ephemera. Accessing these necessitated numerous research trips. It has added to eighteenth-century studies by shaping debates on masculinity and sexuality in the long eighteenth century period. Receiving positive reviews, the monograph has led to editorial positions for its author in special issues on the queer eighteenth century (JECS 2020; Humanities 2021).
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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