The Manly Masquerade : Masculinity, Paternity, and Castration in the Italian Renaissance /
Analyzes how the body was constructed and politicized in early modern Italy by exploring literary discourses of the period - plays, novellas, travel journals, poems, etc.
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham [N.C.] :
Duke University Press,
2003.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Body and Generation in the EarlyModern Period
- Chapter 1. The Useless Genitor: Fantasies of Putrefaction and Nongenealogical Births
- Chapter 2. The Masquerade of Paternity: Cuckoldry and Baby Male in Machiavelli's La mandragola
- Chapter 3. Performing Maternity: Female Imagination, Paternal Erasure, and Monstrous Birth in Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata
- Chapter 4. The Masquerade of Masculinity: Erotomania in Ariosto's Orlando furioso
- Chapter 5. Androgynous Doubling and Hermaphroditic Anxieties: Bibbiena's La calandria
- Chapter 6. The Masquerade of Manhood: The Paradox of the Castrato.