Introduction: Body and Generation in the EarlyModern Period -- Chapter 1. The Useless Genitor: Fantasies of Putrefaction and Nongenealogical Births -- Chapter 2. The Masquerade of Paternity: Cuckoldry and Baby Male in Machiavelli's La mandragola -- Chapter 3. Performing Maternity: Female Imagination, Paternal Erasure, and Monstrous Birth in Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata -- Chapter 4. The Masquerade of Masculinity: Erotomania in Ariosto's Orlando furioso -- Chapter 5. Androgynous Doubling and Hermaphroditic Anxieties: Bibbiena's La calandria -- Chapter 6. The Masquerade of Manhood: The Paradox of the Castrato
Summary
Analyzes how the body was constructed and politicized in early modern Italy by exploring literary discourses of the period - plays, novellas, travel journals, poems, etc
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-305) and index
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