{"product_id":"generation-and-degeneration-tropes-of-reproduction-in-literature-and-history-from-antiquity-through-early-modern-europe-paperback","title":"Generation and Degeneration: Tropes of Reproduction in Literature and History from Antiquity through Early Modern Europe - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eValeria Finucci\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis distinctive collection explores the construction of genealogies-in both the biological sense of procreation and the metaphorical sense of heritage and cultural patrimony. Focusing specifically on the discourses that inform such genealogies, \u003ci\u003eGeneration and Degeneration\u003c\/i\u003e moves from Greco-Roman times to the recent past to retrace generational fantasies and discords in a variety of related contexts, from the medical to the theological, and from the literary to the historical.\u003cbr\u003eThe discourses on reproduction, biology, degeneration, legacy, and lineage that this book broaches not only bring to the forefront concepts of sexual identity and gender politics but also show how they were culturally constructed and reconstructed through the centuries by medicine, philosophy, the visual arts, law, religion, and literature. The contributors reflect on a wide range of topics-from what makes men \"manly\" to the identity of Christ's father, from what kinds of erotic practices went on among women in sixteenth-century seraglios to how men's hemorrhoids can be variously labeled. Essays scrutinize stories of menstruating males and early writings on the presumed inferiority of female bodily functions. Others investigate a psychomorphology of the clitoris that challenges Freud's account of lesbianism as an infantile stage of sexual development and such topics as the geographical origins of medicine and the materialization of genealogy in the presence of Renaissance theatrical ghosts.\u003cbr\u003eThis collection will engage those in English, comparative, Italian, Spanish, and French studies, as well as in history, history of medicine, and ancient and early modern religious studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eContributors.\u003c\/i\u003e Kevin Brownlee, Marina Scordilis Brownlee, Elizabeth Clark, Valeria Finucci, Dale Martin, Gianna Pomata, Maureen Quilligan, Nancy Siraisi, Peter Stallybrass, Valerie Traub\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e[This book's] ensemble of motifs is not simply cast in currently fashionable psychoanalytical language. It displays a wide array of critical perspectives yet a homogeneity of viewpoints and ideological bents occur through its disparate contributions. A truly unified piece of scholarship.-- Giuseppe F. Mazzotta, author of \"The Worlds of Petrarch\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eValeria Finucci is Associate Professor of Italian at Duke University. She is the editor of \u003ci\u003eRenaissance Transactions: Ariosto and Tasso, \u003c\/i\u003ealso published by Duke University Press and the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Lady Vanishes.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKevin Brownlee is Professor of French and Italian at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of \u003ci\u003ePoetic Identity in Guillaume de Machau.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.96 x 9.22 x 6.02 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 13, 2001\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42130247483527,"sku":"9780822326441","price":56.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/ae3447350f777ca28d214307eaa0af9c.webp?v=1732609535","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/generation-and-degeneration-tropes-of-reproduction-in-literature-and-history-from-antiquity-through-early-modern-europe-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}