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Article: Presenting Gender: Changing Sex in Early-Modern Culture.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- January 1, 2003
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Presenting Gender: Changing Sex in Early-Modern Culture. Ed. by. CHRIS MOUNSEY (Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture) Cranbury, NJ: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2001. 301 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8387-5477-5.
This collection of ten diverse essays opens with a well placed piece by Conrad Brunstrom, examining ideas of masculinity and nationalism in the eighteenth century. Brunstrom explores the debate between men of letters as to the nature of masculinity, underpinning this by reference to the contemporary scientific understanding of sex and gender. The conclusion that he is able to draw, that it was ...