Maternal Imagination and Monstrous Birth: Tasso’s Gerusalemme liberata

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction Genealogical Pleasures, Genealogical Disruptions 1
5. I. THEORIES OF REPRODUCTION
6. Generation, Degeneration, Regeneration: Original Sin and the Conception of Jesus in the Polemic between Augustine and Julian of Eclanum 17
7. Maternal Imagination and Monstrous Birth: Tasso’s Gerusalemme liberata 41
8. 2. BOUNDARIES OF SEX AND GENDER
9. Contradictions of Masculinity: Ascetic Inseminators and Menstruating Men in Greco-Roman Culture 81
10. Menstruating Men: Similarity and Difference of the Sexes in Early Modern Medicine 109
11. The Psychomorphology of the Clitoris, or, The Reemergence of the Tribade in English Culture 153
12. 3. FEMALE GENEALOGIES
13. Genealogies in Crisis: María de Zayas in Seventeenth-Century Spain 189
14. Incest and Agency: The Case of Elizabeth I 209
15. 4. THE POLITICS OF INHERITANCE
16. In Search of the Origins of Medicine: EgyptianWisdom and Some Renaissance Physicians 235
17. The Conflicted Genealogy of Cultural Authority: Italian Responses to French Cultural Dominance in Il Tesoretto, Il Fiore, and La Commedia 262
18. Hauntings: The Materiality of Memory on the Renaissance Stage 287
19. Index 317