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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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Finucci, Valeria (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2003.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.