Desire in the Renaissance : : Psychoanalysis and Literature / / ed. by Regina Schwartz, Valeria Finucci.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Bellamy, Elizabeth J.,; Berger, Harry,; Enterline, Lynn,; Finucci, Valeria,; Garber, Marjorie,; Kerrigan, William,; Korda, Natasha,; Miller, David Lee,; Schiesari, Juliana,; Schwartz, Regina,
• HerausgeberIn: Finucci, Valeria,; Schwartz, Regina,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [1994]; ©1995
• Year of Publication: 1994
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)

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 th...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• Introduction: Worlds Within and Without
• FAKING IT: SEX, CLASS, AND GENDER MOBILITY
• The Insincerity of Women
• Mistaken Identities: Castiglio(ne)'s Practical Joke
• The Female Masquerade: Ariosto and the Game of Desire
• OGLING: THE CIRCULATION OF POWER
• Actaeon at the Hinder Gate: The Stag Party in Spenser's Gardens of Adonis
• Embodied Voices: Petrarch Reading (Himself Reading) Ovid
• Through the Optic Glass: Voyeurism and Paradise Lost
• LOVING AND LOATHING: THE ECONOMICS OF SUBJECTION
• Libidinal Economies: Machiavelli and Fortune's Rape
• Female Friends and Fraternal Enemies in As You Like It
• DREAMING ON: UNCANNY ENCOUNTERS
• From Virgil to Tasso: The Epic Topos as an Uncanny Return
• Writing the Specular Son: Jonson, Freud, Lacan, and the (K)not of Masculinity
• LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
• INDEX