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To recent studies of Renaissance subjectivity, Anxious Masculinity in Early Modern England contributes the argument that masculinity is unavoidably anxious and volatile in cultures that distribute power and authority according to patriarchal prerogatives. Drawing from current arguments in feminism, cultural studies, historicism, psychoanalysis and gay studies, Mark Breitenberg explores the dialectic of desire and anxiety in masculine subjectivity in the work of a wide range of writers, including Shakespeare, Bacon, Burton and the women writers of the 'querelles des femmes' debate, especially Jane Anger. Breitenberg discusses jealousy and cuckoldry anxiety, hetero and homoerotic desire, humoural psychology, anatomical difference, cross-dressing and the idea of honour and reputation. He traces masculine anxiety both as a sign of ideological contradiction and, paradoxically, as a productive force in the perpetuation of western patriarchal systems.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Anxious Masculinity in Early Modern England
• Author: Mark Breitenberg
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 236
• EAN: 9780521485883
• ISBN: 0521485886
• ID: 01284774
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 368 g
• Dimensions: 151 × 228 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 14. March 1996

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