Generation and Degeneration: Tropes of Reproduction in Literature and History from Antiquity through Early Modern Europe

Published by Duke University Press 2001

Generation and Degeneration

Tropes of Reproduction in Literature and History from Antiquity through Early Modern Europe

Edited by: Valeria Finucci and Kevin Brownlee
With contributions by: Elizabeth A. Clark and Dale B. Martin

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822380276

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About this book

This collection explores the construction of genealogies both in the biological sense of procreation and in the metaphorical sense of heritage and cultural patrimony.

Author / Editor information

Valeria Finucci is Associate Professor of Italian at Duke University. She is the editor of Renaissance Transactions: Ariosto and Tasso, also published by Duke University Press and the author of The Lady Vanishes.

Kevin Brownlee is Professor of French and Italian at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of Poetic Identity in Guillaume de Machau.

Reviews

“The glory of this collection is the way it tackles quite abstract issues corporally. It reminds the reader how fundamental is the relation between human physiology and human ideas of history.”—Susan Noakes, author of Timely Reading: Between Exegesis and Interpretation

“[This book’s] ensemble of motifs is not simply cast in currently fashionable psychoanalytical language. It displays a wide array of critical perspectives yet a homogeneity of viewpoints and ideological bents occur through its disparate contributions. A truly unified piece of scholarship.”— Giuseppe F. Mazzotta, author of The Worlds of Petrarch

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Genealogical Pleasures, Genealogical Disruptions Valeria Finucci Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I. THEORIES OF REPRODUCTION
Generation, Degeneration, Regeneration: Original Sin and the Conception of Jesus in the Polemic between Augustine and Julian of Eclanum Elizabeth Clark Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
Maternal Imagination and Monstrous Birth: Tasso’s Gerusalemme liberata Valeria Finucci Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
2. BOUNDARIES OF SEX AND GENDER
Contradictions of Masculinity: Ascetic Inseminators and Menstruating Men in Greco-Roman Culture Dale Martin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
Menstruating Men: Similarity and Difference of the Sexes in Early Modern Medicine Gianna Pomata Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
The Psychomorphology of the Clitoris, or, The Reemergence of the Tribade in English Culture Valerie Traub Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
3. FEMALE GENEALOGIES
Genealogies in Crisis: María de Zayas in Seventeenth-Century Spain Marina Brownlee Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
Incest and Agency: The Case of Elizabeth I Maureen Quilligan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
4. THE POLITICS OF INHERITANCE
In Search of the Origins of Medicine: EgyptianWisdom and Some Renaissance Physicians Nancy Siraisi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
The Conflicted Genealogy of Cultural Authority: Italian Responses to French Cultural Dominance in Il Tesoretto, Il Fiore, and La Commedia Kevin Brownlee Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	262
Hauntings: The Materiality of Memory on the Renaissance Stage Peter Stallybrass Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	287
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	317

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 336
Illustrations
- Other: 7 illustrations

eBook

Published: March 13, 2001
ISBN: 9780822380276