Generation and Degeneration: Tropes of Reproduction in Literature and History from Antiquity to Early Modern Europe.
Language: English
Published by Duke University Press, Durham and London,, 2001
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Durham and London, Duke University Press cm.15,3x23,5, p(8),327,(1),p. brossura, cop.fig.a col.
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- Title
- Generation and Degeneration: Tropes of Reproduction in Literature and History from Antiquity to Early Modern Europe.
- Author
- Finucci,Valeria. Brownlee,Kevin. (ed.).
- Publisher
- Duke University Press, Durham and London,
- Publication year
- 2001
- Condition
- COME NUOVO
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0822326442
- ISBN 13
- 9780822326441
- Dimensions
- cm.15,3x23,5,
The discourses on reproduction, biology, degeneration, legacy, and lineage that this book broaches not only bring to the forefront concepts of sexual identity and gender politics but also show how they were culturally constructed and reconstructed through the centuries by medicine, philosophy, the visual arts, law, religion, and literature. The contributors reflect on a wide range of topics—from what makes men “manly” to the identity of Christ’s father, from what kinds of erotic practices went on among women in sixteenth-century seraglios to how men’s hemorrhoids can be variously labeled. Essays scrutinize stories of menstruating males and early writings on the presumed inferiority of female bodily functions. Others investigate a psychomorphology of the clitoris that challenges Freud’s account of lesbianism as an infantile stage of sexual development and such topics as the geographical origins of medicine and the materialization of genealogy in the presence of Renaissance theatrical ghosts.
This collection will engage those in English, comparative, Italian, Spanish, and French studies, as well as in history, history of medicine, and ancient and early modern religious studies.
Contributors. Kevin Brownlee, Marina Scordilis Brownlee, Elizabeth Clark, Valeria Finucci, Dale Martin, Gianna Pomata, Maureen Quilligan, Nancy Siraisi, Peter Stallybrass,Valerie Traub
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About the Author
Valeria Finucci is Associate Professor of Italian at Duke University. She is the editor of Renaissance Transactions: Ariosto and Tasso, also published by Duke University Press and the author of The Lady Vanishes.
Kevin Brownlee is Professor of French and Italian at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of Poetic Identity in Guillaume de Machau.
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