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Lovesickness and Gender in Early Modern English Literature (Hardcover)
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Lovesickness and Gender in Early Modern English Literature (Hardcover)
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In early modern medical texts, intense unfulfilled erotic desire is
held to be a real and virulent disease: it is classified as a
species of melancholy, with physical etiologies and cures. Lesel
Dawson analyzes literary representations of lovesickness in
relation to medical ideas about desire and wider questions about
gender and identity, exploring the different ways that desire is
believed to take root in the body, how gender roles are encoded and
contested in courtship, and the psychic pains and pleasures of
frustrated passion. She explores the relationship between women's
lovesickness and other female maladies (such as hysteria and
greensickness), and asks whether women can suffer from intellectual
forms of melancholy generally thought to be exclusively male.
Finally, she examines the ways in which Neoplatonism offers an
alternative construction of love to that found in natural
philosophy and considers how anxieties concerning love's ability to
emasculate the male lover emerge indirectly in remedies for
lovesickness.
With reference to the works of Shakespeare, Beaumont and Fletcher,
Middleton, Ford, and Davenant, Lovesickness and Gender in Early
Modern English Literature investigates how early modern
representations of lovesickness expose contemporary cultural
constructions of love, revealing the relation of sexuality to
spirituality and the creation and shattering of the impassioned
subject. It offers an important contribution to the history of
romantic love and will be of interest to students and scholars of
literature, gender, and medical history.
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