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Kestner, Joseph Aloysius was born on September 12, 1943 in Horton, Kansas, United States. Son of Joseph A. and Mary Josephine Kestner.
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Masculinities in Victorian Painting 1st edition by Kestner, Joseph A. (1995) Hardcover
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Protest and Reform: British Social Narrative by Women, 1827-67
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The social novel in nineteenth-century Britain has been considered the effort of a predominantly male canon of writers. In this ground-breaking study, Joseph Kestner challenges that assumption, arguing that it was a succession of female writers—women often meriting only a footnote in literary history—who initiated and advanced the tradition using narrative fiction to register protest, expose abuses, and promote reform. Kestner explores the contributions to Victorian social policy by the fiction of these neglected authors (Hannah More, Elizabeth Stone, Frances Trollope, Charlotte Tonna, Camilla Toulmin, Geraldine Jewsbury, Fanny Mayne, Julia Kavanagh, Dinah Mulock Craik) as well as of more prominent female authors (Maria Edgeworth, Harriet Martineau, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot) and male writers (Charles Dickens, Benjamin Disraeli, G. M. W. Reynolds, John Galt, Charles Kingsley).
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Mythology and Misogyny: The Social Discourse of Nineteenth Century British Classical-Subject Painting
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19th century British classical subject or mythological paintings have traditionally been viewed as little more than decorative canvases. In this work, the author claims these paintings are something more - an integral part of a broad-based value system that reinforced patriarchal dominance by inculcating misogynistic and gynophobic attitudes among the broad public. Kestner examines the work of many major artists - Leighton, Burne-Jones, Poynter, Moore, Waterhouse, and Alma-Tadema, as well as that of lesser known figures. He contends that these painters deployed classical legends to reinforce a legal, medical, educational, religious, and marital fabric that supported all the prerogatives of patriarchal power. Early in the book, Kestner uses the evidence of archaeology, sociology, politics, medicine, and law to reveal the function of myth in classical-subject art. Particularly powerful, he finds, are ideas that define men as heroic figures and females as helpless victims - often of despair or madness - concepts that permeated the codes of 19th century society.
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Masculinities in Victorian Painting (The Nineteenth Century Series)
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This fully illustrated study examines the construction of masculinity in culture based on an analysis of pictorial representations of the male in a wide range of contexts: social, historical, legal, literary, institutional, anthropological, educational, marital, imperial and aesthetic. Powerful images from the work of dozens of Victorian artists - from Leighton, Waterhouse, Burne-Jones and Alma-Tadema to Dicksee, Pettie, Watts, Woodville and Tuke to name a few - are used to illustrate the 5 key paradigms of masculinity: the classical hero, the gallant knight, the challenged paterfamilias, the valiant soldier and the male nude. Aspects of 20th-century theory such as rescue compulsion, male sexuality, the male gaze and racial ideas are also considered. The author concludes that maleness was, and is, learned and 19th-century ideas still influence the construction of manhood today; that social institutions are influenced by, and themselves use, artistic representation; that artistic images strongly influence ideas of gender; and that multi-disciplinary cultural study is the best way to examine the formation of gender ideologies.
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Spatiality of the Novel
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- Masculinities in Victorian Painting (The Nineteenth Century Series) (This fully illustrated study examines the construction of...)
- Protest and Reform (The social novel in nineteenth-century Britain has been c...)
- Masculinities in Victorian Painting (The Nineteenth Century Series) by Joseph A. Kestner (1995-02-28)
Joseph Aloysius Kestner
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Joseph Aloysius Kestner, American Author, English educator. Regent's fellow New York, 1965-1967, President's fellow Columbia University, 1967-1968, Woodrow Wilson Foundation fellow, 1969. Board of directors Tulsa Opera, since 1987. Member Modern Language Association, Metropolitan Opera Guild (contributor articles), Massenet Society American
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Education
Bachelor magna cum laude, State University of New York, Albany, 1965; Master of Arts with honors, Columbia University, 1966; Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1969.
Career
Assistant professor Princeton (New Jersey) University, 1969-1973, City University of New York, 1973-1978. Professor University Tulsa, since 1978.
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Masculinities in Victorian Painting (The Nineteenth Century Series)
(This fully illustrated study examines the construction of...)
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Masculinities in Victorian Painting (The Nineteenth Century Series)
(This fully illustrated study examines the construction of...)
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Mythology and Misogyny: The Social Discourse of Nineteenth Century British Classical-Subject Painting
(19th century British classical subject or mythological pa...)
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Protest and Reform: British Social Narrative by Women, 1827-67
( The social novel in nineteenth-century Britain has been...)
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Protest and Reform
( The social novel in nineteenth-century Britain has been...)
- Masculinities in Victorian Painting 1st edition by Kestner, Joseph A. (1995) Hardcover
- Masculinities in Victorian Painting (The Nineteenth Century Series) by Joseph A. Kestner (1995-02-28)
- Spatiality of the Novel
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Masculinities in Victorian Painting (The Nineteenth Century Series)
Membership
Board of directors Tulsa Opera, since 1987. Member Modern Language Association, Metropolitan Opera Guild (contributor articles), Massenet Society American M C.
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Married Anna Helena Norberg, May 31, 1980.
