Masculinity and Danger on the Eighteenth-Century Grand Tour

Goldsmith, Sarah

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“…The decision of Q's friends' to accompany him to his quest journey proves their love and devotion to him even further, which is an element found in many come-of-age stories. In the 18 th and 19 th century the sons of noble families of Europe used to take a long journey of knowledge and adulthood, known as Grand Tour, mainly to Italy, the Ottoman empire (they preferred Greece for its glorious ancient past) and the Middle East (Goldsmith, 2020). The journey of Quentin and his friends in the paper town to meet Margo constitutes their entrance to adulthood.…”

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The Depiction of the Loser Teenager in the Film and Television Adaptations of John Green’s Young Adult Novels

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2022

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In the last few decades, the teen movie genre has left behind the genre of light comedies or farce comedies and deals with more substantial and fundamental issues concerning teenagers and young adults. In the literary universe of John Green, which has been the basis and source of inspiration for the corresponding film and television adaptations, the form of the good-natured and well-intentioned loser teenager dominates. The loser teenager watches with longing and anxiety the lives of his popular peers, longing to be given a chance to join their company. when this finally happens, he finds out that things are not always as they seem and the values that decorate his universe are not as meaningless as he initially thought. The heroes in Green's books possess culture, dreams and ambitions, and an already complete personal universe that most of their popular peers lack, lost in the abyss of adolescence, its changes, and dilemmas. their depiction in the mass entertainment media of film and television reflects also social changes in teen and school culture, s well as the broadening of personal outlooks and expectations of teenagers themselves. in the recent article, we are going to analyse the type of loser geek/nerd teenager hero in the film and television adaptations of his young adult novel Paper Towns (2015) and Looking for Alaska (2019).

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The Depiction of the Loser Teenager in the Film and Television Adaptations of John Green’s Young Adult Novels

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2022

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“…31 Sarah Goldsmith's recent work on masculine danger and the Grand Tour highlights how the European rite of passage was meant to prepare and expose elite young men's bodies to danger and physical exercise. 32 The proper deportment and manners of a gentleman was embodied in elite men's balance of gentlemanly poise and manly power, as Joanne Begiato has shown. 33 Each of these definitions is preoccupied with ideas of performance; to 'make a figure' in the eighteenth-century world was to ascribe to, and perform, a certain set of expectations and characteristics in a heteronormative and patriarchal society.…”

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To make a figure in the world: Identity and material literacy in the 1770s coach consumption of British ambassador, Lord Grantham

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2022

Gender & History

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Using archival research on the correspondence of diplomat Thomas Robinson, 2nd Baron Grantham, this article examines how Grantham used his material knowledge of carriage design to negotiate the often‐conflicting pushes and pulls on elite office‐holding men's identities and material cultures. Grantham's anxieties and frustrations surrounding ‘making a figure’ showcase the importance of material culture and material literacy in the construction and negotiation of a professional (specifically diplomatic), social and gendered identity in the late‐eighteenth century and suggests an alternative vision of the ‘anxious masculinity’ paradigm.

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Europe in British Literature and Culture

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Masculinity and Danger on the Eighteenth-Century Grand Tour

Cited by 6 publications

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The Depiction of the Loser Teenager in the Film and Television Adaptations of John Green’s Young Adult Novels

The Depiction of the Loser Teenager in the Film and Television Adaptations of John Green’s Young Adult Novels

To make a figure in the world: Identity and material literacy in the 1770s coach consumption of British ambassador, Lord Grantham

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