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Castration, impotence, and emasculation in the long eighteenth century
- Title
- Castration, impotence, and emasculation in the long eighteenth century / edited by Anne Greenfield.
- Publication
- New York ; London : Routledge, 2020.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Greenfield, Anne
- Description
- xi, 241 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Routledge studies in eighteenth-century literature
- Uniform Title
- Routledge studies in eighteenth-century literature.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Art.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Unmanning / Anne Greenfield -- Section 1: Sexual impotence. Body explanations and the meanings of impotence in Early Modern England / Amanda L. Capern and Judith M. Spicksley -- The impotent husband : debility and discord in Ned Ward's Nuptial Dialogues / Leah Benedict. Section 2: Eunuchs and orientalism. The fetish, the phallus, the fantasy : orientalism, symbolic castration, and the Eighteenth-century imaginary / Nathan Gorelick -- Eunuchs, mutes, and the performance of anxiety in Orientalist plays / Beth Cortese -- Showing the eunuch : disability, sexuality, and Dryden's All for love / Jeremy Chow. Section 3: Symbolic unmanning. Refining the aura of subversively symbolic castrations : examining the depictions of violent unmanning in Macklin's English Bible / William Levine -- Women running with scissors : consuming castration anxiety in The Feign'd Courtesans / Danielle Menge -- Masculinity, performance anxiety, and literary impotence in Charlotte Charke's The History of Henry Dumont / Mary Beth Harris. Section 4 : Italian Castrati. Between history and fiction : representation of castrati in Gerard Corbiau's film, Farinelli, il Castrato (1994) / Jeongwon Joe -- When performing gender is nonconforming : the need for archives in the practice of theory / Katherine Arens.
- Call Number
- JFE 20-4184
- ISBN
- 9780367437398
- 0367437392
- OCLC
- 1132278863
- Title
- Castration, impotence, and emasculation in the long eighteenth century / edited by Anne Greenfield.
- Publisher
- New York ; London : Routledge, 2020.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Routledge studies in eighteenth-century literatureRoutledge studies in eighteenth-century literature.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1700-1799
- Added Author
- Greenfield, Anne, editor.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 20-4184