Generation and Degeneration
Tropes of Reproduction in Literature and History from Antiquity through Early Modern Europe
1st Edition
Published on 13. March 2001
336 pages
978-0-8223-8027-6 (ISBN)
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This collection explores the construction of genealogies both in the biological sense of procreation and in the metaphorical sense of heritage and cultural patrimony.
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Valeria Finucci | Kevin Brownlee
Generation and Degeneration
Tropes of Reproduction in Literature and History from Antiquity Through Early Modern Europe
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03/2001
Duke University Press
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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.
Content
Introduction: Genealogical Pleasures, Genealogical Disruptions / Valeria Finucci
1. Theories of Reproduction
Generation, Degeneration, Regeneration: Original Sin and the Conception of Jesus in the Polemic between Augustine and Julian of Eclanum / Elizabeth A. Clark
Maternal Imagination and Monstrous Birth: Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata / Valeria Finucci
2. Boundaries of Sex and Gender
Contradictions of Masculinity: Ascetic Inseminators and Menstruating Men in Greco-Roman Culture / Dale B. Martin
Menstruating Men: Similarity and Difference of the Sexes in Early Modern Medicine / Gianna Pomata
The Psychomorphology of the Clitoris, or The Reemergence of the Tribade in English Culture / Valerie Traub
3. Female Genealogies
Genealogies in Crisis: María de Zayas in Seventeenth-Century Spain / Marina Scordilis Brownlee
Incest and Agency: The Case of Elizabeth I / Maureen Quilligan
4. The Politics of Inheritance
In Search of the Origins of Medicine: Egyptian Wisdom and Some Renaissance Physicians / Nancy G. Siraisi
The Conflicted Genealogy of Cultural Authority: Italian Responses to French Cultural Dominance in Il Tesoretto, Il Fiore, and La Commedia / Kevin Brownlee
Hauntings: The Materiality of Memory on the Renaissance Stage / Peter Stallybrass
Index
1. Theories of Reproduction
Generation, Degeneration, Regeneration: Original Sin and the Conception of Jesus in the Polemic between Augustine and Julian of Eclanum / Elizabeth A. Clark
Maternal Imagination and Monstrous Birth: Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata / Valeria Finucci
2. Boundaries of Sex and Gender
Contradictions of Masculinity: Ascetic Inseminators and Menstruating Men in Greco-Roman Culture / Dale B. Martin
Menstruating Men: Similarity and Difference of the Sexes in Early Modern Medicine / Gianna Pomata
The Psychomorphology of the Clitoris, or The Reemergence of the Tribade in English Culture / Valerie Traub
3. Female Genealogies
Genealogies in Crisis: María de Zayas in Seventeenth-Century Spain / Marina Scordilis Brownlee
Incest and Agency: The Case of Elizabeth I / Maureen Quilligan
4. The Politics of Inheritance
In Search of the Origins of Medicine: Egyptian Wisdom and Some Renaissance Physicians / Nancy G. Siraisi
The Conflicted Genealogy of Cultural Authority: Italian Responses to French Cultural Dominance in Il Tesoretto, Il Fiore, and La Commedia / Kevin Brownlee
Hauntings: The Materiality of Memory on the Renaissance Stage / Peter Stallybrass
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