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Generation and Degeneration: Tropes of Reproduction in Literature and History from Antiquity to Early Modern Europe
By
Dale B. Martin (contributor),
Kevin Brownlee (editor),
Valeria Finucci (editor) and
Elizabeth A. Clark (contributor)
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Duke Univ Pr
Publication date
May 1, 2001
Pages
327
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780822326441
ISBN-10
0822326442
Dimensions
1 by 6 by 9.25 in.
Weight
1.25 lbs.
Original list price
$25.95
Other format details
university press
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This distinctive collection explores the construction of genealogiesâin both the biological sense of procreation and the metaphorical sense of heritage and cultural patrimony. Focusing specifically on the discourses that inform such genealogies, Generation and Degeneration moves from Greco-Roman times to the recent past to retrace generational fantasies and discords in a variety of related contexts, from the medical to the theological, and from the literary to the historical.
The discourses on reproduction, biology, degeneration, legacy, and lineage that this book broaches not only bring to the forefront concepts of sexual identity and gender politics but also show how they were culturally constructed and reconstructed through the centuries by medicine, philosophy, the visual arts, law, religion, and literature. The contributors reflect on a wide range of topicsâfrom what makes men âmanlyâ to the identity of Christâs father, from what kinds of erotic practices went on among women in sixteenth-century seraglios to how menâs hemorrhoids can be variously labeled. Essays scrutinize stories of menstruating males and early writings on the presumed inferiority of female bodily functions. Others investigate a psychomorphology of the clitoris that challenges Freudâs account of lesbianism as an infantile stage of sexual development and such topics as the geographical origins of medicine and the materialization of genealogy in the presence of Renaissance theatrical ghosts.
This collection will engage those in English, comparative, Italian, Spanish, and French studies, as well as in history, history of medicine, and ancient and early modern religious studies.
The discourses on reproduction, biology, degeneration, legacy, and lineage that this book broaches not only bring to the forefront concepts of sexual identity and gender politics but also show how they were culturally constructed and reconstructed through the centuries by medicine, philosophy, the visual arts, law, religion, and literature. The contributors reflect on a wide range of topicsâfrom what makes men âmanlyâ to the identity of Christâs father, from what kinds of erotic practices went on among women in sixteenth-century seraglios to how menâs hemorrhoids can be variously labeled. Essays scrutinize stories of menstruating males and early writings on the presumed inferiority of female bodily functions. Others investigate a psychomorphology of the clitoris that challenges Freudâs account of lesbianism as an infantile stage of sexual development and such topics as the geographical origins of medicine and the materialization of genealogy in the presence of Renaissance theatrical ghosts.
This collection will engage those in English, comparative, Italian, Spanish, and French studies, as well as in history, history of medicine, and ancient and early modern religious studies.
Contributors. Kevin Brownlee, Marina Scordilis Brownlee, Elizabeth Clark, Valeria Finucci, Dale Martin, Gianna Pomata, Maureen Quilligan, Nancy Siraisi, Peter Stallybrass,Valerie Traub
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Hardcover
With Elizabeth A. Clark (other contributor), Dale B. Martin (other contributor) |
from Duke Univ Pr (May 1, 2001)
9780822326557 | details & prices | 327 pages | 6.50 × 9.25 × 1.25 in. | 1.65 lbs | List price $94.95
Paperback
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With Elizabeth A. Clark (other contributor), Dale B. Martin (other contributor) |
from Duke Univ Pr (May 1, 2001)
9780822326441 | details & prices | 327 pages | 6.00 × 9.25 × 1.00 in. | 1.25 lbs | List price $25.95
About: This distinctive collection explores the construction of genealogiesâin both the biological sense of procreation and the metaphorical sense of heritage and cultural patrimony.
About: This distinctive collection explores the construction of genealogiesâin both the biological sense of procreation and the metaphorical sense of heritage and cultural patrimony.
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