Volpone's Bastards : : Theorising Jonson's City Comedy / / Isaac Hui.
Brings Ben Jonson to the twenty-first century by reading Volpone through psychoanalysis, poststructuralism and MarxismThrough studying Volpone’s three bastard children ̶ the dwarf, the androgyne and the eunuch ̶ from the theoretical argument of Freud, Lacan, Derrida and Foucault, this book discusses...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 Introduction: Jonson and Comedy
- Chapter 2 ‘For pleasing imitation of greater men’s action’: Nano the Anamorphic Ape
- Chapter 3 ‘Think me cold, frozen, and impotent, and so report me?’: Volpone and His ‘Castrone’ Complex
- Chapter 4 ‘The case appears too liquid’: The Two Sides of Androgyno
- Chapter 5 ‘I fear I shall begin to grow in love with my dear self’: The Parasite and His ‘Mirror Stage’
- Chapter 6 Jonson’s Comedy of Bastardy
- Chapter 7 Conclusion: ‘Fools, they are the only nation’: Rereading the Interlude and Beyond
- Bibliography
- Index