Castration Impotence And Emasculation In The Long Eighteenth Century

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Castration, Impotence, and Emasculation in the Long Eighteenth Century

Castration, Impotence, and Emasculation in the Long Eighteenth Century
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 353
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ISBN-10 : 9781000760668
ISBN-13 : 1000760669
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Book Synopsis Castration, Impotence, and Emasculation in the Long Eighteenth Century by : Anne Leah Greenfield

Download or read book Castration, Impotence, and Emasculation in the Long Eighteenth Century written by Anne Leah Greenfield and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-20 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essay collection examines one of the most fearsome, fascinating, and hotly-discussed topics of the long eighteenth century: masculinity compromised. During this timespan, there was hardly a literary or artistic genre that did not feature unmanning regularly and prominently: from harrowing tales of castrations in medical treatises, to emasculated husbands in stage comedies, to sympathetic and powerful eunuchs in prose fiction, to glorious operatic performances by castrati in Italy, to humorous depictions in caricature and satirical paintings, to fearsome descriptions of Eastern eunuchs in travel narratives, to foolish and impotent old men who became a mainstay in drama. Not only does this unprecedented study of unmanning (in all of its varied forms) illustrate the sheer prevalence of a trope that featured prominently across literary and artistic genres, but it also demonstrates the ways diminished masculinity reflected some of the most strongly-held anxieties, interests, and values of eighteenth-century Britons.


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