Desire in the Renaissance
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Aestheticism
Alcina
Allegory
Allusion
Areopagitica
Belphoebe
Benefit of clergy
Beyond the Pleasure Principle
Castration
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Chivalric romance
Consciousness
Consummation
Courtier
Courtship
Dismemberment
Effeminacy
Ego ideal
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Erotic literature
Eroticism
Euphemism
Exhibitionism
Fake orgasm
Femininity
Fetishism
Genre
Guinevere
Homeovestism
Italian Renaissance
Joke
Jouissance
Juvenal
Libido
Literature
Machiavellianism
Marfisa
Masculinity
Melodrama
Narcissism
Narrative
Niccolo Machiavelli
Oedipus complex
Orgasm
Ovid
Parody
Petrarch
Petrarchan sonnet
Poetry
Practical joke
Propoetides
Psychoanalysis
Quibble (plot device)
Renaissance
Renaissance humanism
Renaissance literature
Ridicule
Sexuality in ancient Rome
Sigmund Freud
Sprezzatura
Stanza
Subjectivity
Symptom
The Erotic
The Faerie Queene
Thought
Transference
Transvestism
Trojan War
Uncanny
Voyeurism
William Shakespeare
Product details
- ISBN 9780691001005
- Weight: 397g
- Dimensions: 197 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 06 Nov 1994
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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).
Valeria Finucci is Professor of Romance Studies and Regina Schwartz is Professor of English, both at Duke University.
