Desire and Anxiety: Circulations of Sexuality in Shakespearean Drama (Routledge Revivals)

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Synopsis
In both feminist theory and Shakespearean criticism, questions of sexuality have consistently been conflated with questions of gender. First published in 1992, this book details the intersections and contradictions between sexuality and gender in the early modern period. Valerie Traub argues that desire and anxiety together constitute the erotic in Shakespearean drama – circulating throughout the dramatic texts, traversing ‘masculine’ and ‘feminine’ sites, eliciting and expressing heterosexual and homoerotic fantasies, embodiments, and fears. This is the first book to present a non-normalizing account of the unconscious and the institutional prerogatives that comprise the erotics of Shakespearean drama. Employing feminist, psychoanalytic, and new historical methods, and using each to interrogate the other, the book synthesises the psychic and the social, the individual and the institutional.
Copyright:
1992

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
194 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781317619734
Related ISBNs:
9781138804395, 9781138804432, 9781315753003
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
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Copyrighted By:
Valerie Traub
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Literature and Fiction, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender, Drama, Plays and Theater, Language Arts
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Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

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