Castration, impotence, and emasculation in the long eighteenth century / edited by Anne Greenfield.
| Other author | Greenfield, Anne. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Routledge, 2020. |
| Description | xi, 241 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Series | Routledge studies in eighteenth-century literature Routledge studies in eighteenth-century literature. ^A540886 |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2020430050 |
| ISBN | 9780367437398 hardcover |
| ISBN | 0367437392 hardcover |
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