UID:
almahu_9949386466402882
Format:
1 online resource (xi, 241) :
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illustrations.
ISBN:
9781003005407
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1003005403
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1000760669
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9781000760484
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1000760480
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9781000760309
,
1000760308
,
9781000760668
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in eighteenth-century literature.
Content:
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.
Note:
Unmanning /
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Body explanations and the meanings of impotence in Early Modern England /
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The impotent husband : debility and discord in Ned Ward's Nuptial Dialogues /
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The fetish, the phallus, the fantasy : orientalism, symbolic castration, and the Eighteenth-century imaginary /
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Eunuchs, mutes, and the performance of anxiety in Orientalist plays /
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Showing the eunuch : disability, sexuality, and Dryden's All for love /
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Refining the aura of subversively symbolic castrations : examining the depictions of violent unmanning in Macklin's English Bible /
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Women running with scissors : consuming castration anxiety in The Feign'd Courtesans /
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Masculinity, performance anxiety, and literary impotence in Charlotte Charke's The History of Henry Dumont /
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Between history and fiction : representation of castrati in Gerard Corbiau's film, Farinelli, il Castrato (1994) /
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When performing gender is nonconforming : the need for archives in the practice of theory /
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 0367437392
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780367437398
Additional Edition:
Print version: Castration, impotence, and emasculation in the long eighteenth century. New York : Routledge, 2020 ISBN 9780367437398
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Literary criticism.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Literary criticism.
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Critiques littéraires.
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003005407
