Generation and degeneration: tropes of reproduction in literature and history from antiquity through early modern Europe
Genealogical pleasures, genealogical disruptions / Valeria Finucci -- 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 l...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Durham, NC [u.a.]
Duke University Press
2001
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| In: | Year: 2001 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Finucci, Valeria, Generation and Degeneration: Tropes of Reproduction in Literature and History from Antiquity through Early Modern Europe] (2002) (Cox, Catherine S.)
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Europe
/ Eroticism (Motif)
/ Gender-specific role (Motif)
/ Genealogy (Motif)
/ Literature
/ Collection of essays
B Europe / Literature / Genealogy (Motif) / Reproduction / Geschichte Anfänge-1700 |
| Further subjects: | B
Collection of essays
B Genealogy Philosophy B Sex role in literature B Sex role History B Patrilineal kinship B Genealogy in literature B Human reproduction Social aspects B Human reproduction in literature B Genealogy (Philosophy) |
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Table of Contents |
| Summary: | Genealogical pleasures, genealogical disruptions / Valeria Finucci -- 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 -- 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 -- Genealogies in crisis : Mar(c)Ưa de Zayas in seventeenth-century Spain / Marina Scordilis Brownlee -- Incest and agency : the case of Elizabeth I / Maureen Quilligan -- 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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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0822326558 |