Anxious Masculinity in Early Modern England

by Mark Breitenberg

Book Overview

To recent studies of Renaissance subjectivity, Anxious Masculinity in Early Modern England contributes the argument that masculinity is unavoidably anxious and volatile in cultures that distribute power and authority according to patriarchal prerogatives. Drawing from current arguments in feminism, cultural studies, historicism, psychoanalysis and gay studies, Mark Breitenberg explores the dialectic of desire and anxiety in masculine subjectivity...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521481414
• ISBN13: 9780521481410
• Release Date: March 1996
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"