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Anxious Masculinity in Early Modern England

Anxious Masculinity in Early Modern England

Breitenberg, Mark
Orgel, Stephen
Breintenberg, Mark

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Series: Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture, Book 10

Literary CriticismGeneral Gender Studies

ISBN10: 0521485886
ISBN13: 9780521485883
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Mar 14 1996
Pages: 236
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.51 Width: 5.93 Depth: 8.89
Language: English
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 honor 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.

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