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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.
Explores the representation of revenge from Classical to early
modern literature This collection explores a range of literary and
historical texts from ancient Greece and Rome, medieval Iceland and
medieval and early modern England to provide an understanding of
wider historical continuities and discontinuities in
representations of gender and revenge. It brings together
approaches from literary criticism, gender theory, feminism, drama,
philosophy and ethics to allow greater discussion between these
subjects and across historical periods and to provide a more
complex and nuanced understanding of the ways in which ideas about
gender and revenge interrelate. Key features: The coverage, from
classical through to renaissance literature, gives a sense of how
the revenge motifs work over time with gender in mind It will
appeal to a wide readership including those working in classics;
medieval and renaissance literature; gender studies; revenge and
revenge tragedy; the intertextual relations between ancient,
medieval and early modern texts It considers what constitutes the
literary revenge tragedy tradition, suggesting points of continuity
and difference as well as rethinking the parameters of the genre
Contributors include Edith Hall, Alison Findlay and Janet Clare
Revenge and Gender from Classical to Renaissance Literature' looks
at a range of literary and historical texts to provide an
understanding of wider historical continuities and discontinuities
in representations of revenge and thereby establishing some of the
key paradigms for the way that the relationship between revenge and
gender has been configured.The collection brings together
approaches from literary criticism, gender theory, feminism, drama,
philosophy, and ethics to allow greater discussion between these
subjects and across historical periods and to provide a more
complex and nuanced understanding of the ways in which ideas about
gender and revenge interrelate. It demonstrates that revenge acts
frequently cross-question the very cultural and literary tropes
they seem to reinforce since they disrupt as well as affirm
conventional cultural constructions about how gender roles shape
displays of passion and ideas of agency.
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