The Gendering of Melancholia: Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and the Symbolics of Loss in Renaissance Literature

Juliana Schiesari

Published by Cornell University Press 1992

The Gendering of Melancholia

Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and the Symbolics of Loss in Renaissance Literature

Juliana Schiesari

https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501718373

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The pantheon of renowned melancholics—from Shakespeare's Hamlet to Walter Benjamin—includes no women, an absence that in Juliana Schiesari's view points less to a dearth of unhappy women in patriarchal culture than to the lack of significance accorded...

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Juliana Schiesari is Assistant Professor of Italian at the University of California, Davis.

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Madelon Sprengnether, University of Minnesota:

A masterful interweaving of diverse strains of contemporary criticism which offers a powerful and consistent feminist perspective. Juliana Schiesari's strong analyses of texts by women writers are among the many delights of this book. She puts together pieces of a puzzle—with startling implications not only for our reading of the past but also for our understanding of our own historical moment. This is a major accomplishment.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1. The Gendering of Freud’s “Mourning and Melancholia” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
Chapter 2. Black Humor? Gender and Genius in the Melancholic Tradition Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	96
Chapter 3. Appropriating the Work of Women’s Mourning: From Petrarch to Gaspara Stampa, and from Isabella di Morra to Tasso Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	160
Chapter 4. Soverchia maninconia: Tasso’s Hydra Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
Chapter 5. Mourning the Phallus? (Hamlet, Burton, Lacan and “Others”) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 264
Keywords: Literary Studies; Gender Studies

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Published: August 6, 2018
ISBN: 9781501718373