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Castration, Impotence, and Emasculation in the Long Eighteenth Century (Hardcover)
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Castration, Impotence, and Emasculation in the Long Eighteenth Century (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature
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This essay collection examines one of the most fearsome,
fascinating, and hotly-discussed topics of the long eighteenth
century: masculinity compromised. During this timespan, there was
hardly a literary or artistic genre that did not feature unmanning
regularly and prominently: from harrowing tales of castrations in
medical treatises, to emasculated husbands in stage comedies, to
sympathetic and powerful eunuchs in prose fiction, to glorious
operatic performances by castrati in Italy, to humorous depictions
in caricature and satirical paintings, to fearsome descriptions of
Eastern eunuchs in travel narratives, to foolish and impotent old
men who became a mainstay in drama. Not only does this
unprecedented study of unmanning (in all of its varied forms)
illustrate the sheer prevalence of a trope that featured
prominently across literary and artistic genres, but it also
demonstrates the ways diminished masculinity reflected some of the
most strongly-held anxieties, interests, and values of
eighteenth-century Britons.
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