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