Manliness and Morality: Middle-Class Masculinity in Britain and America, 1800-1940

Abstract

Biological thought, athletics and the formation of the man of 1850-1914, Roberta J. Park learning about manhood - gender ideals and the middle-class family in 19th-century America, E. Anthony Rotundo building character in the British boy - the extension of Christian manliness to working-class adolescents, 1880-1914, John Springhall men, boys and anger in American society, 1860-1940, Peter N. Stearns passing the love of women - manly love and Victorian society, Jeffrey Richards the recapitulation theory of play - motor behaviour, moral reflexes and manly attitudes in urban America, 1880-1920, Benjamin G. Rader social Darwinism, sport and upper-class education in late Victorian and Edwardian England, J.A. Mangan Yale and the heroic ideal - gotterdammerung and palingenesis 1865-1914, Robert J. Higgs the Imperial male and the British masculine stereotype in late Victorian and Edwardian times, John M. Mackenzie popular manliness - Baden Powell, scouting and the development of manly character, Allen Warren the habit of victory - the American military and the cult of manliness, Donald J.Mrozek symbols of moral superiority, slavery, sport and the changing world order 1800-1940, James Walvin.