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Title Generation and degeneration : tropes of reproduction in literature and history from antiquity through early modern Europe / edited by Valeria Finucci & Kevin Brownlee
Published Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (327 pages) : illustrations
Series e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Contents Genealogical pleasures, genealogical disruptions / Valeria Finucci -- Generation, degeneration, regeneration : original sin and the conception of Jesus in the polemic between Augustine and Julian of Eclanum / Elizabeth A. Clark -- Maternal imagination and monstrous birth : Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata / Valeria Finucci -- Contradictions of masculinity : ascetic inseminators and menstruating men in Greco-Roman culture / Dale B. Martin -- Menstruating men : similarity and difference of the sexes in early modern medicine / Gianna Pomata -- The psychomorphology of the clitoris, or, the reemergence of the Tribade in English culture / Valerie Traub -- Genealogies in crisis : María de Zayas in seventeenth-century Spain / Marina Scordilis Brownlee -- Incest and agency : the case of Elizabeth I / Maureen Quilligan -- In search of the origins of medicine : Egyptian wisdom and some Renaissance physicians / Nancy G. Siraisi -- The conflicted genealogy of cultural authority : Italian responses to French cultural dominance in Il tesoretto, Il fiore, and La commedia / Kevin Brownlee -- Hauntings : the materiality of memory on the Renaissance stage / Peter Stallybrass
Summary This collection explores the construction of genealogies both in the biological sense of procreation and in the metaphorical sense of heritage and cultural patrimony
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Sex role -- History
Sex role in literature.
Human reproduction -- Social aspects
Human reproduction in literature.
Genealogy (Philosophy)
Genealogy in literature.
Patrilineal kinship.
HISTORY -- World.
Genealogy in literature
Genealogy (Philosophy)
Human reproduction in literature
Human reproduction -- Social aspects
Patrilineal kinship
Sex role
Sex role in literature
Literatur
Genealogie Motiv
Geschlechterrolle Motiv
Erotik Motiv
Aufsatzsammlung
Genealogieën.
Sekserol.
Voortplanting (biologie)
Literaire thema's.
Sexualité (psychologie) -- Histoire.
Sexualité (psychologie) -- Dans la littérature.
Reproduction humaine -- Dans la littérature.
Reproduction humaine -- Aspect social.
Généalogie (philosophie)
Généalogie -- Dans la littérature.
Europa
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Finucci, Valeria, editor.
Brownlee, Kevin, editor.
LC no. 00045185
ISBN 0822380277
9780822380276
1283061864
9781283061865
9786613061867
6613061867