Lovesickness and gender in early modern English literature
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2008 - Oxford University Press, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
61,000 words, Guess
Page Count
244 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL16886157M
- Internet Archivelovesicknessgend00daws
- Internet Archivelovesicknessgend00daws_519
- Internet Archivelovesicknessgend0000daws
- ISBN-139780199266128
and 6 more
- ISBN-100199266123
- LibraryThing7966759
- Goodreads3222019
- Library of Congress Control Number2008022056
- OCLC Control Number229342337
- Better World Books9780199266128
Classifications
- DDC820.9/353
- LCCPR428.M4 D38 2008
- LCCPR428.M4D38 2008
Description
"Lesel Dawson analyzes literary representations of lovesickness in relation to medical ideas about desire and wider questions about gender and identity, exploring the different ways that desire is believed to take root in the body, how gender roles are encoded and contested in courtship, and the psychic pains and pleasures of frustrated passion. She explores the relationship between women's lovesickness and other female maladies (such as hysteria and green sickness), and asks whether women can suffer from intellectual forms of melancholy generally thought to be exclusively male. Finally, she examines the ways in which Neoplatonism offers an alternative construction of love to that found in natural philosophy and considers how anxieties concerning love's ability to emasculate the male lover emerge indirectly in remedies for lovesickness."--Jacket.
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