Desire in the Renaissance

Psychoanalysis and Literature
Erscheinungsjahr 1994
ISBN: 978-0-691-00100-5
Verlag: Princeton University Press

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 465 g

Drawing on a variety of psychoanalytic approaches, ten critics engage in exciting discussions of the ways the "inner life" is depicted in the Renaissance and the ways it is shown to interact with the "external" social and economic spheres. Spurred by the rise of capitalism and the nuclear family, Renaissance anxieties over changes in identity emerged in the period's unconscious--or, as Freud would have it, in its literature. Hence, much of Renaissance literature represents themes that have been prominent in the discourse of psychoanalysis: mistaken identity, incest, voyeurism, mourning, and the uncanny. The essays in this volume range from Spenser and Milton to Machiavelli and Ariosto, and focus on the fluidity of gender, the economics of sexual and sibling rivalry, the power of the visual, and the cultural echoes of the uncanny. The discussion of each topic highlights language as the medium of desire, transgression, or oppression.The section "Faking It: Sex, Class, and Gender Mobility" contains essays by Marjorie Garber (Middleton), Natasha Korda (Castiglione), and Valeria Finucci (Ariosto). The contributors to "Ogling: The Circulation of Power" include Harry Berger (Spenser), Lynn Enterline (Petrarch), and Regina Schwartz (Milton). "Loving and Loathing: The Economics of Subjection" includes Juliana Schiesari (Machia-velli) and William Kerrigan (Shakespeare). "Dreaming On: Uncanny Encounters" contains essays by Elizabeth J. Bellamy (Tasso) and David Lee Miller (Jonson).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Finucci, Valeria

Schwartz, Regina

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Worlds Within and Without3The Insincerity of Women19Mistaken Identities: Castiglio(ne)'s Practical Joke39The Female Masquerade: Ariosto and the Game of Desire61Actaeon at the Hinder Gate: The Stag Party in Spenser's Gardens of Adonis91Embodied Voices: Petrarch Reading (Himself Reading) Ovid120Through the Optic Glass: Voyeurism and Paradise Lost146Libidinal Economies: Machiavelli and Fortune's Rape169Female Friends and Fraternal Enemies in As You Like It184From Virgil to Tasso: The Epic Topos as an Uncanny Return207Writing the Specular Son: Jonson, Freud, Lacan, and the (K)not of Masculinity233List of Contributors261Index263