Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Greenfield, Anne

Description

1. xi, 241 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series statement

1. Routledge studies in eighteenth-century literature

Uniform title

1. Routledge studies in eighteenth-century literature.

Subject

1. 1700-1799
2. Masculinity in literature
3. Castration in literature
4. Eunuchs > In literature
5. Masculinity in art
6. Castration > In art
7. English literature > 18th century > History and criticism
8. Castration
9. English literature

Genre/Form

1. Art.
2. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Contents

1. 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.

Call number

1. JFE 20-4184

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title

1. Castration, impotence, and emasculation in the long eighteenth century / edited by Anne Greenfield.

Publisher

1. New York ; London : Routledge, 2020.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. Routledge studies in eighteenth-century literature
2. Routledge studies in eighteenth-century literature.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological term

1. 1700-1799

Added author

1. Greenfield, Anne, editor.

ISBN

1. 9780367437398 hardcover
2. 0367437392 hardcover

Research call number

1. JFE 20-4184