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Author:   Anne Leah Greenfield
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367437398

ISBN 10:   0367437392
Pages:   242
Publication Date:   27 November 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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"Chapter 1: ""Unmanning"" by Anne Greenfield Section 1: Sexual Impotence Chapter 2: ""Body Explanations and the Meaning of Impotence in Early Modern England"" by Amanda L. Capern and Judith Spicksley Chapter 3: ""The Impotent Husband: Debility and Discord in Ned Ward’s Nuptial Dialogues"" by Leah Benedict Section 2: Eunuchs and Orientalism Chapter 4: ""The Fetish, the Phallus, the Fantasy: Orientalism, Symbolic Castration, and the Eighteenth-Century Imaginary"" by Nathan Gorelick Chapter 5: ""Eunuchs, Mutes, and the Performance of Anxiety in Orientalist Plays"" by Beth Cortese Chapter 6: ""Showing the Eunuch: Disability, Sexuality, and Dryden’s All for Love"" by Jeremy Chow Section 3: Symbolic Unmanning Chapter 7: ""Refining the Aura of Subversively Symbolic Castrations: Examining the Depictions of Violent Unmanning in Macklin’s English Bible"" by William Levine Chapter 8: ""Women Running with Scissors: Consummating Castration Anxiety in The Feign’d Courtesans"" by Danielle Menge Chapter 9: ""Masculinity, Performance Anxiety, and Literary Impotence in Charlotte Charke’s The History of Henry Dumont"" by Mary Beth Harris Section 4: Italian Castrati Chapter 10: ""Between History and Fiction: Representation of Castrati in Gérard Corbiau’s Film, Farinelli, Il Castrato (1994)"" by Jeongwon Joe Chapter 11: ""When Performing Gender Is Non-Conforming: The Need for Archives in the Practice of Theory"" by Katherine Arens"

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Anne Greenfield is Associate Professor of English at Valdosta State University. She is editor of the book collection Interpreting Sexual Violence: 1660-1800, and she has published articles on Restoration and eighteenth-century literature, especially drama. She is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research.

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