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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      19 November 2009
      14 March 1996
      ISBN:
      9780511586231
      9780521481410
      9780521485883
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511586231
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.458kg, 236 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.341kg, 236 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Renaissance and Early Modern Literature
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture (10)
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Renaissance and Early Modern Literature
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture (10)
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    To recent studies of Renaissance subjectivity, Anxious Masculinity in Early Modern England contributes the argument that masculinity is unavoidably anxious and volatile in cultures that distribute power and authority according to patriarchal prerogatives. Drawing from current arguments in feminism, cultural studies, historicism, psychoanalysis and gay studies, Mark Breitenberg explores the dialectic of desire and anxiety in masculine subjectivity in the work of a wide range of writers, including Shakespeare, Bacon, Burton and the women writers of the 'querelles des femmes' debate, especially Jane Anger. Breitenberg discusses jealousy and cuckoldry anxiety, hetero and homoerotic desire, humoural psychology, anatomical difference, cross-dressing and the idea of honour and reputation. He traces masculine anxiety both as a sign of ideological contradiction and, paradoxically, as a productive force in the perpetuation of western patriarchal systems.

    Reviews

    "The book is deeply grounded in current approaches to gender and culture, and it contributes usefully to those discussions." B.E. Brandt, Choice

    "In Anxious Masculinity Mark Breitenberg has done a superb job of elucidating and untangling numerous of the elements and contradictions of the early modern sex-gender system." Michael M. Holmes, Essays in Theatre

    "In Anxious Masculinity Mark Breitenberg has done a superb job of elucidating and untangling numerous of the elements and contradictions of the early modern sex-gender system....The evr deepening comprehension of the ways in which early modern people worried about, debated, and acted upon inequality, validates Breitenberg's salutary sense of the human ability to contest norms and resist coercion." Michael M. Holmes,Essays in Theatre

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