Castration, impotence, and emasculation in the long eighteenth century /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Greenfield, Anne (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York ; London : Routledge, 2020.
Series:	Routledge studies in eighteenth-century literature.
Subjects:	Masculinity in literature. Castration in literature. Eunuchs > In literature. Masculinity in art. Castration > In art. English literature > 18th century > History and criticism. Castration. English literature. 1700-1799 Art. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Table of Contents:

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.