Anne Leah Greenfield

Castration, Impotence, and Emasculation in the Long Eighteenth Century

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Produktbeschreibung

This essay collection examines one of the most fearsome, fascinating, and hotly-discussed topics of the long eighteenth century: masculinity compromised.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9780367437398
• ISBN-10: 0367437392
• Artikelnr.: 58341430

Autorenporträt

Anne Greenfield is Associate Professor of English at Valdosta State University. She is editor of the book collection Interpreting Sexual Violence: 1660-1800, and she has published articles on Restoration and eighteenth-century literature, especially drama. She is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: "Unmanning" by Anne Greenfield
Section 1: Sexual Impotence
Chapter 2: "Body Explanations and the Meaning of Impotence in Early Modern
England" by Amanda L. Capern and Judith Spicksley
Chapter 3: "The Impotent Husband: Debility and Discord in Ned Ward's
Nuptial Dialogues" by Leah Benedict
Section 2: Eunuchs and Orientalism
Chapter 4: "The Fetish, the Phallus, the Fantasy: Orientalism, Symbolic
Castration, and the Eighteenth-Century Imaginary" by Nathan Gorelick
Chapter 5: "Eunuchs, Mutes, and the Performance of Anxiety in Orientalist
Plays" by Beth Cortese
Chapter 6: "Showing the Eunuch: Disability, Sexuality, and Dryden's All for
Love" by Jeremy Chow
Section 3: Symbolic Unmanning
Chapter 7: "Refining the Aura of Subversively Symbolic Castrations:
Examining the Depictions of Violent Unmanning in Macklin's English Bible"
by William Levine
Chapter 8: "Women Running with Scissors: Consummating Castration Anxiety in
The Feign'd Courtesans" by Danielle Menge
Chapter 9: "Masculinity, Performance Anxiety, and Literary Impotence in
Charlotte Charke's The History of Henry Dumont" by Mary Beth Harris
Section 4: Italian Castrati
Chapter 10: "Between History and Fiction: Representation of Castrati in
Gérard Corbiau's Film, Farinelli, Il Castrato (1994)" by Jeongwon Joe
Chapter 11: "When Performing Gender Is Non-Conforming: The Need for
Archives in the Practice of Theory" by Katherine Arens