Anxious masculinity in early modern England / Mark Breitenberg.

Call Number	820.9/353
Author	Breitenberg, Mark, author.
Title	Anxious masculinity in early modern England / Mark Breitenberg.
Physical Description	1 online resource (x, 225 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Series	Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 10
Notes	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Contents	1. Fearful fluidity: Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy -- 2. Purity and the dissemination of knowledge in Bacon's new science -- 3. Publishing chastity: Shakespeare's "The Rape of Lucrece" -- 4. The anatomy of masculine desire in Love's Labor's Lost -- 5. Inscriptions of difference: cross-dressing, androgyny and the anatomical imperative -- 6. Ocular proof: sexual jealousy and the anxiety of interpretation.
Summary	To recent studies of Renaissance subjectivity, Anxious Masculinity in Early Modern England contributes the argument that masculinity is unavoidably anxious and volatile in cultures that distribute power and authority according to patriarchal prerogatives. Drawing from current arguments in feminism, cultural studies, historicism, psychoanalysis and gay studies, Mark Breitenberg explores the dialectic of desire and anxiety in masculine subjectivity in the work of a wide range of writers, including Shakespeare, Bacon, Burton and the women writers of the 'querelles des femmes' debate, especially Jane Anger. Breitenberg discusses jealousy and cuckoldry anxiety, hetero and homoerotic desire, humoural psychology, anatomical difference, cross-dressing and the idea of honour and reputation. He traces masculine anxiety both as a sign of ideological contradiction and, paradoxically, as a productive force in the perpetuation of western patriarchal systems.
Subject	Burton, Robert, 1577-1640. Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626 Criticism and interpretation. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. English literature Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism. English literature Psychological aspects. Masculinity in literature. Man-woman relationships in literature. Patriarchy in literature. Anxiety in literature. SEX IN LITERATURE.
Multimedia	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511586231

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Summary	To recent studies of Renaissance subjectivity, Anxious Masculinity in Early Modern England contributes the argument that masculinity is unavoidably anxious and volatile in cultures that distribute power and authority according to patriarchal prerogatives. Drawing from current arguments in feminism, cultural studies, historicism, psychoanalysis and gay studies, Mark Breitenberg explores the dialectic of desire and anxiety in masculine subjectivity in the work of a wide range of writers, including Shakespeare, Bacon, Burton and the women writers of the 'querelles des femmes' debate, especially Jane Anger. Breitenberg discusses jealousy and cuckoldry anxiety, hetero and homoerotic desire, humoural psychology, anatomical difference, cross-dressing and the idea of honour and reputation. He traces masculine anxiety both as a sign of ideological contradiction and, paradoxically, as a productive force in the perpetuation of western patriarchal systems.
Notes	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Contents	1. Fearful fluidity: Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy -- 2. Purity and the dissemination of knowledge in Bacon's new science -- 3. Publishing chastity: Shakespeare's "The Rape of Lucrece" -- 4. The anatomy of masculine desire in Love's Labor's Lost -- 5. Inscriptions of difference: cross-dressing, androgyny and the anatomical imperative -- 6. Ocular proof: sexual jealousy and the anxiety of interpretation.
Subject	Burton, Robert, 1577-1640. Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626 Criticism and interpretation. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. English literature Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism. English literature Psychological aspects. Masculinity in literature. Man-woman relationships in literature. Patriarchy in literature. Anxiety in literature. SEX IN LITERATURE.
Multimedia	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511586231