Research Catalog

Title

The intervention of philology : gender, learning, and power in Lohenstein's Roman plays / Jane O. Newman.

Author

Newman, Jane O.

Publication

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2000.

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Description

xv, 226 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

University of North Carolina studies in the Germanic languages and literatures ; no. 122

Uniform Title

University of North Carolina studies in the Germanic languages and literatures ; no. 122.

Subject

• Lohenstein, Daniel Casper von, 1635-1683 > Criticism and interpretation
• Lohenstein, Daniel Casper von, 1635-1683 > Women
• Lohenstein, Daniel Casper von, 1635-1683 > Rome
• Historical drama, German > History and criticism
• Power (Social sciences) in literature
• German drama > Roman influences
• Sex role in literature
• Women in literature
• Rome > In literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-220) and index.

Contents

• Introduction. Gender, Knowledge, Philology: The Case of Daniel Casper von Lohenstein -- Lohenstein at the Crossroads: Early Modern Studies and the Politics of Location -- Philology and the Construction of Early Modern Gender Identity -- The Worlds of Daniel Casper von Lohenstein -- 1. Sophonisbe (1669) and the Text That Is Not One: Hybridity in Historiography. Playing with History: The Past That Is Not One. Playing with Gender: Sexual/Textual Cross-Dressing. Dido, Sophonisbe, and the Philological (Re)Production of Gender. The Play That Is Not One -- 2. Sex "in Strange Places": Sexed Bodies and the Split Text of Lohenstein's Epicharis (1665). Academic Bodies and the Early Modern (Fe)Male Subject. Sex "in Strange Places": Sexual and Textual Confusion. Staging Ambiguity: The Question of Epicharis's Tortured Body. The Text That Is Not One: Lohenstein's Tacitus -- 3. Agrippina (1665) and the Politics of Philology: Sons and Mothers in Early Modern Central Europe.
• Sons and Mothers in Early Modern Central Europe. Semiramis and Agrippina: Matricide in the Margins. Women in Power: Gender Stereotypes and the Politics of Philology -- 4. Lohenstein's Cleopatra (1680): "Race," Gender, and the Disarticulation of the Early Modern Imperial Subject. Discourses of "Race" in the Early Modern Period. "No Servile Moor"?: Race and Gender in Cleopatra. The Empire Talks Back: Blazons and the Dark Body. The Politics of Textual Resistance. Conclusion. Philology, Lohenstein, and the Post-Baroque -- Benjamin and the Post-Baroque -- Lohenstein on the Border: Klaus Gunther Just's Cold War Edition -- Recentering Europe in Early Modern Studies.

ISBN

0807881228 (alk. paper)

LCCN

99040597

OCLC

• ocm41944742
• SCSB-3863805

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries