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Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture Ser.: Anxious Masculinity in Early Modern England by Mark Breitenberg (1996, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-100521485886
ISBN-139780521485883
eBay Product ID (ePID)786060
Product Key Features
Number of Pages236 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameAnxious Masculinity in Early Modern England
SubjectShakespeare, Literary, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Subjects & Themes / General
Publication Year1996
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Drama, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorMark Breitenberg
SeriesCambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight12 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN95-012793
Reviews"In Anxious Masculinity Mark Breitenberg has done a superb job of elucidating and untangling numerous of the elements and contradictions of the early modern sex-gender system." Michael M. Holmes, Essays in Theatre, "The book is deeply grounded in current approaches to gender and culture, and it contributes usefully to those discussions." B.E. Brandt, Choice
Dewey Edition20
Series Volume NumberSeries Number 10
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal305.3/0942
Table Of ContentIntroduction; 1. Fearful fluidity: Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy; 2. Purity and the dissemination of knowledge in Bacon's new science; 3. Publishing chastity: Shakespeare's 'The Rape of Lucrece'; 4. The anatomy of masculine desire in Love's Labour's Lost; 5. Inscriptions of difference: cross-dressing, androgyny and the anatomical imperative; 6. Ocular proof: sexual jealousy and the anxiety of interpretation.
SynopsisThe importance of heterosexual masculine identity in Renaissance culture is explored through the work of a wide range of writers, including Shakespeare, Montaigne, Bacon, Burton, and Jane Anger. Mark Breitenberg traces masculine anxiety as both a problem and a productive force in the perpetuation of patriarchal ideologies., To recent studies of Renaissance subjectivity, Anxious Masculinity in Early Modern England contributes the argument that masculinity is unavoidably anxious and volatile in cultures that distribute power and authority according to patriarchal prerogatives. Drawing from current arguments in feminism, cultural studies, historicism, psychoanalysis and gay studies, Mark Breitenberg explores the dialectic of desire and anxiety in masculine subjectivity in the work of a wide range of writers, including Shakespeare, Bacon, Burton, and the women writers of the "querelles des femmes" debate, especially Jane Anger. Breitenberg discusses jealousy and cuckoldry anxiety, hetero and homoerotic desire, humoural psychology, anatomical difference, cross-dressing and the idea of honor and reputation. He traces masculine anxiety both as a sign of ideological contradiction and, paradoxically, as a productive force in the perpetuation of Western patriarchal systems., To recent studies of Renaissance subjectivity, Anxious Masculinity in Early Modern England contributes the argument that masculinity is unavoidably anxious and volatile in cultures that distribute power and authority according to patriarchal prerogatives. Drawing from current arguments in feminism, cultural studies, historicism, psychoanalysis and gay studies, Mark Breitenberg explores the dialectic of desire and anxiety in masculine subjectivity in the work of a wide range of writers, including Shakespeare, Bacon, Burton and the women writers of the 'querelles des femmes' debate, especially Jane Anger. Breitenberg discusses jealousy and cuckoldry anxiety, hetero and homoerotic desire, humoural psychology, anatomical difference, cross-dressing and the idea of honour and reputation. He traces masculine anxiety both as a sign of ideological contradiction and, paradoxically, as a productive force in the perpetuation of western patriarchal systems.
LC Classification NumberPR428.M37 B74 1996
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