Finucci The Manly Masquerade

Masculinity, Paternity, and Castration in the Italian Renaissance
1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8447-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 328 Seiten

Analyzes how the body was constructed and politicized in early modern Italy by exploring literary discourses of the period - plays, novellas, travel journals, poems, etc.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Finucci, Valeria

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: Body and Generation in the Early Modern Period 1

1. The Useless Genitor: Fantasies of Putrefaction and Nongenealogical Births 37

2. The Masquerade of Paternity: Cuckoldry and Baby M[ale] in Machiavelli's La mandragola 79

3. Performing Maternity: Female Imagination, Paternal Erasure, and Monstrous Birth in Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata 119

4. The Masquerade of Masculinity: Erotomania in Ariosto's Orlando furioso 159

5. Androgynous Doubling and Hermaphroditic Anxieties: Bibbiena's La calandria 189

6. The Masquerade of Manhood: The Paradox of the Castrato 225

Selected Bibliography 281

Index 307

Über Autor(innen)

Valeria Finucci is Associate Professor of Italian at Duke University. She is the author of The Lady Vanishes: Subjectivity and Representation in Castiglione and Ariosto. She is editor of Renaissance Transactions: Ariosto and Tasso and coeditor of Generation and Degeneration: Tropes of Reproduction in Literature and History from Antiquity to Early Modern Europe, both published by Duke University Press.