This book explores changing notions of political and personal virtue in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and offers a new account of masculinity and citizenship in English culture. -- .
The first dedicated study of men’s footwear in the long eighteenth century, taking the distinctive approach of thinking about shoes as material objects that have a close relationship with the masculine body.
The first dedicated study of men’s footwear in the long eighteenth century, taking the distinctive approach of thinking about shoes as material objects that have a close relationship with the masculine body.