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The manly masquerade : masculinity, paternity, and castration in the Italian Renaissance / Valeria Finucci.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Finucci, Valeria.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Masculinity--Italy--History.
- Masculinity.
- Paternity--Italy--History.
- Paternity.
- Castration--Italy--History.
- Castration.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (329 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Body and Generation in the EarlyModern Period
- Chapter 1. The Useless Genitor: Fantasies of Putrefaction and Nongenealogical Births
- Chapter 2. The Masquerade of Paternity: Cuckoldry and Baby Male in Machiavelli's La mandragola
- Chapter 3. Performing Maternity: Female Imagination, Paternal Erasure, and Monstrous Birth in Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata
- Chapter 4. The Masquerade of Masculinity: Erotomania in Ariosto's Orlando furioso
- Chapter 5. Androgynous Doubling and Hermaphroditic Anxieties: Bibbiena's La calandria
- Chapter 6. The Masquerade of Manhood: The Paradox of the Castrato.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-305) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613064400
- 9781283064408
- 1283064405
- 9780822384472
- 0822384477
- OCLC:
- 191222422
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