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Men on Trial : Performing Emotion, Embodiment and Identity in Ireland, 1800–45 by Barclay, Katie is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Men on Trial : Performing Emotion, Embodiment and Identity in Ireland, 1800–45 about?
Men on trial explores how the Irish perform 'the self' within the early nineteenth-century courtroom and its implications for law, society and nation. Drawing on new methodologies from the history of emotion, as well as theories of performativity and performative space, it emphasises that manliness was not simply a cultural ideal, but something practised, felt and embodied. Men on trial explores how gender could be a creative dynamic in productions of power. Targeted at scholars in Irish history
Who reads Men on Trial : Performing Emotion, Embodiment and Identity in Ireland, 1800–45?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Barclay, Katie
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781526132925
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Humanities
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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