Anxious Masculinity in Early Modern England

Klappentext To recent studies of Renaissance subjectivity. Anxious masculinity in early modern England contributes the argument that masculinity is unavoidably anxious and volatile in cultures that distribute power and authority according to patriarchal prerogatives. 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.

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• Autori: Mark Breintenberg, Mark Breitenberg
• Con la collaborazione di: Stephen Orgel (Editore)
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 14.03.1996
• EAN: 9780521485883
• ISBN: 978-0-521-48588-3
• Pagine: 236
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata