Drawing on a variety of psychoanalytic approaches, ten critics
engage in exciting discussions of the ways the "inner life" is
depicted in the Renaissance and the ways it is shown to interact
with the "external" social and economic spheres. Spurred by the
rise of capitalism and the nuclear family, Renaissance anxieties
over changes in identity emerged in the period's unconscious--or,
as Freud would have it, in its literature. Hence, much of
Renaissance literature represents themes that have been prominent
in the discourse of psychoanalysis: mistaken identity, incest,
voyeurism, mourning, and the uncanny. The essays in this volume
range from Spenser and Milton to Machiavelli and Ariosto, and focus
on the fluidity of gender, the economics of sexual and sibling
rivalry, the power of the visual, and the cultural echoes of the
uncanny. The discussion of each topic highlights language as the
medium of desire, transgression, or oppression.
The section "Faking It: Sex, Class, and Gender Mobility"
contains essays by Marjorie Garber (Middleton), Natasha Korda
(Castiglione), and Valeria Finucci (Ariosto). The contributors to
"Ogling: The Circulation of Power" include Harry Berger (Spenser),
Lynn Enterline (Petrarch), and Regina Schwartz (Milton). "Loving
and Loathing: The Economics of Subjection" includes Juliana
Schiesari (Machia-velli) and William Kerrigan (Shakespeare).
"Dreaming On: Uncanny Encounters" contains essays by Elizabeth J.
Bellamy (Tasso) and David Lee Miller (Jonson).
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