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Title:

Castration, impotence, and emasculation in the long eighteenth century / edited by Anne Greenfield.

Publisher:

Routledge,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

xi, 241 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Subject:

1700-1799
Masculinity in literature.
Castration in literature.
Eunuchs--In literature.
Masculinity in art.
Castration--In art.
English literature--18th century--History and criticism.
Castration.
Castration in literature.
English literature.
Masculinity in art.
Masculinity in literature.
Art.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Other Authors:

Greenfield, Anne, editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

When performing gender is nonconforming : the need for archives in the practice of theory / Katherine Arens. Section 4 : Italian Castrati. 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.

Series:

Routledge studies in eighteenth-century literature

ISBN:

0367437392
9780367437398

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1132278863

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)