Anxious Masculinity in Early Modern England

Zusammenfassung The importance of heterosexual masculine identity in Renaissance culture is explored through the work of a wide range of writers! including Shakespeare! Montaigne! Bacon! Burton! and Jane Anger. Mark Breitenberg traces masculine anxiety as both a problem and a productive force in the perpetuation of patriarchal ideologies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Fearful fluidity: Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy; 2. Purity and the dissemination of knowledge in Bacon's new science; 3. Publishing chastity: Shakespeare's 'The Rape of Lucrece'; 4. The anatomy of masculine desire in Love's Labour's Lost; 5. Inscriptions of difference: cross-dressing, androgyny and the anatomical imperative; 6. Ocular proof: sexual jealousy and the anxiety of interpretation.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Breitenberg
• Assisted by: Anne Barton (Editor), Stephen Orgel (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.03.1996
• EAN: 9780521481410
• ISBN: 978-0-521-48141-0
• No. of pages: 236
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies