Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Dandies and Prophets: Spectacles of Victorian Masculinity 21
6. 2. "A Sort of Masonry": Secrecy and "Manliness" in Early Victorian Brotherhoods 61
7. 3. Imagining the Science of Renunciation: Manhood and Abasement in Kingsley and Tennyson 107
8. 4. Muscular Aestheticism: Masculine Authority and the Male Body 149
9. 5. Gentleman, Dandy, Priest: Masks and Masculinity in Pater's Aestheticism 183
10. Afterword 229
11. Works Cited 233
12. Index 245