Finucci / Brownlee Generation and Degeneration

Tropes of Reproduction in Literature and History from Antiquity through Early Modern Europe
1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8027-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 336 Seiten

This collection explores the construction of genealogies both in the biological sense of procreation and in the metaphorical sense of heritage and cultural patrimony.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Finucci, Valeria

Brownlee, Kevin

Weitere Mitwirkende

Clark, Elizabeth A.

Martin, Dale B.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Genealogical Pleasures, Genealogical Disruptions / Valeria Finucci

1. Theories of Reproduction

Generation, Degeneration, Regeneration: Original Sin and the Conception of Jesus in the Polemic between Augustine and Julian of Eclanum / Elizabeth A. Clark

Maternal Imagination and Monstrous Birth: Tasso’s Gerusalemme liberata / Valeria Finucci

2. Boundaries of Sex and Gender

Contradictions of Masculinity: Ascetic Inseminators and Menstruating Men in Greco-Roman Culture / Dale B. Martin

Menstruating Men: Similarity and Difference of the Sexes in Early Modern Medicine / Gianna Pomata

The Psychomorphology of the Clitoris, or The Reemergence of the Tribade in English Culture / Valerie Traub

3. Female Genealogies

Genealogies in Crisis: María de Zayas in Seventeenth-Century Spain / Marina Scordilis Brownlee

Incest and Agency: The Case of Elizabeth I / Maureen Quilligan

4. The Politics of Inheritance

In Search of the Origins of Medicine: Egyptian Wisdom and Some Renaissance Physicians / Nancy G. Siraisi

The Conflicted Genealogy of Cultural Authority: Italian Responses to French Cultural Dominance in Il Tesoretto, Il Fiore, and La Commedia / Kevin Brownlee

Hauntings: The Materiality of Memory on the Renaissance Stage / Peter Stallybrass

Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.