Effeminate Years: Literature, Politics, and Aesthetics in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain - Paperback

by Declan Kavanagh (Author)

This booktraces the development of modern ideas of masculinity and the political subject back to the Enlightenment period in Britain to show how the very concept of political agency was shaped by anti-effeminate ideas and beliefs. This study queers our understanding of the political subject, which is still the basis for debate and argument.

Author Biography

Declan Kavanagh is lecturer in eighteenth-century studies and director of the Centre for Gender, Sexuality, and Writing at the University of Kent.