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Castration, Impotence, and Emasculation in the Long Eighteenth Century

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

AvAnne Leah Greenfield

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This essay collection examines one of the most fearsome, fascinating, and hotly-discussed topics of the long eighteenth century: masculinity compromised. During this timespan, there was hardly a literary or artistic genre that did not feature unmanning regularly and prominently: from harrowing tales of castrations in medical treatises, to emasculated husbands in stage comedies, to sympathetic and powerful eunuchs in prose fiction, to glorious operatic performances by castrati in Italy, to humorous depictions in caricature and satirical paintings, to fearsome descriptions of Eastern eunuchs in travel narratives, to foolish and impotent old men who became a mainstay in drama. Not only does this unprecedented study of unmanning (in all of its varied forms) illustrate the sheer prevalence of a trope that featured prominently across literary and artistic genres, but it also demonstrates the ways diminished masculinity reflected some of the most strongly-held anxieties, interests, and values of eighteenth-century Britons.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-11-27
Mått152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt453 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieRoutledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature
Antal sidor242
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9780367437398

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Chapter 1: "Unmanning" by Anne GreenfieldSection 1: Sexual ImpotenceChapter 2: "Body Explanations and the Meaning of Impotence in Early Modern England" by Amanda L. Capern and Judith SpicksleyChapter 3: "The Impotent Husband: Debility and Discord in Ned Ward’s Nuptial Dialogues" by Leah BenedictSection 2: Eunuchs and OrientalismChapter 4: "The Fetish, the Phallus, the Fantasy: Orientalism, Symbolic Castration, and the Eighteenth-Century Imaginary" by Nathan GorelickChapter 5: "Eunuchs, Mutes, and the Performance of Anxiety in Orientalist Plays" by Beth Cortese Chapter 6: "Showing the Eunuch: Disability, Sexuality, and Dryden’s All for Love" by Jeremy ChowSection 3: Symbolic UnmanningChapter 7: "Refining the Aura of Subversively Symbolic Castrations: Examining the Depictions of Violent Unmanning in Macklin’s English Bible" by William LevineChapter 8: "Women Running with Scissors: Consummating Castration Anxiety in The Feign’d Courtesans" by Danielle MengeChapter 9: "Masculinity, Performance Anxiety, and Literary Impotence in Charlotte Charke’s The History of Henry Dumont" by Mary Beth HarrisSection 4: Italian CastratiChapter 10: "Between History and Fiction: Representation of Castrati in Gérard Corbiau’s Film, Farinelli, Il Castrato (1994)" by Jeongwon JoeChapter 11: "When Performing Gender Is Non-Conforming: The Need for Archives in the Practice of Theory" by Katherine Arens