
Crossing Gender in Shakespeare
Feminist Psychoanalysis and the Difference Within
James W. Stone(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 24. February 2010
Book
Hardback
186 pages
978-0-415-87360-4 (ISBN)
Description
In this book, Stone effects a return to gender, after many years of neglect by Twenty-First-Century critics, via a methodology of close reading that foregrounds moments of sexual decentering and disequilibrium within the text and in the interstices of the dialogue between Shakespeare and his critics. Issues addressed range from the cross dressing of Viola and Imogen to the cross gartering of Malvolio, the sound of "un" and the uncanny lyric narcissism of Richard II, Hamlet's misogyny, androgyny, and the poison of marital/political "union," Othello's fears of impotence, rumors of Antony's emasculation versus the militant yet nurturing triumphalism of Cleopatra's suicide, and Posthumus's hysterical reaction to the "woman's part" in himself and his compensatory fantasies of parthenogenesis. Stone unpacks ideologically powerful but unsustainable male claims to self-identity and sameness, set over against man's type-gendering of women as the origin of divisive sexual difference, discord, and the dissolution of marriage. Men who blame women for the difference that divides and weakens their sense of unity and sameness to oneself are unconscious that the uncanny feminine is not outside the masculine, its reassuring canny opposite; it is inside the masculine, its uncanny difference from itself.
Reviews / Votes
"A true essay, a daring exploration of gender."- Renaissance and Reformation
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paper over boards
Illustrations
1 s/w Photographie bzw. Rasterbild
1 Halftones, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-87360-4 (9780415873604)
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Person
James W. Stone is a visiting fellow in the Department of English Language and Literature at the National University of Singapore.
Content
Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1: The Transvestic Glove-Text of Twelfth Night 2: The Sound of "Un" in Richard II 3: Androgynous "Union" and the Woman in Hamlet 4: Impotence and the Feminine in Othello 5: Martial Cleopatra and the Remasculation of Antony 6: The Woman Within in Cymbeline Epilogue: The Tain of the Mirror Notes Bibliography Index