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Desire and Anxiety (Routledge Revivals): Circulations of Sexuality in Shakespearean Drama - Softcover

Traub, Valerie

 
9781138804432: Desire and Anxiety (Routledge Revivals): Circulations of Sexuality in Shakespearean Drama
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1138804436 ISBN 13: 9781138804432
Publisher: Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

In both feminist theory and Shakespearean criticism, questions of sexuality have consistently been conflated with questions of gender. First published in 1992, this book details the intersections and contradictions between sexuality and gender in the early modern period. Valerie Traub argues that desire and anxiety together constitute the erotic in Shakespearean drama – circulating throughout the dramatic texts, traversing ‘masculine’ and ‘feminine’ sites, eliciting and expressing heterosexual and homoerotic fantasies, embodiments, and fears. This is the first book to present a non-normalizing account of the unconscious and the institutional prerogatives that comprise the erotics of Shakespearean drama. Employing feminist, psychoanalytic, and new historical methods, and using each to interrogate the other, the book synthesises the psychic and the social, the individual and the institutional.

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Valerie Traub

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1138804436
ISBN 13 
9781138804432
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
194