This book focuses on men's bodies, emotions and material culture to offer a new understanding of masculinities in Britain in the long nineteenth century. Using objects as well as texts and images, it shows how idealised and ugly bodies, and the feelings they stimulated, helped convey ideas about manliness and unmanliness across society.

Joanne Begiato is Professor of History and Associate Dean for Research and Knowledge Exchange at Oxford Brookes University

Making manliness manifest: an introduction
1 Figures, faces, and desire: male bodies and manliness
2 Appetites, passions, and disgust: the penalties and paradoxes of unmanliness
3 Hearts of oak: martial manliness and material culture
4 Homeward bound: manliness and the home
5 Brawn and bravery: glorifying the working body
The measure of a man: an epilogue
Index