Beard Fetish in Early Modern England (ePub)
Sex, Gender, and Registers of Value
(Sprache: Englisch)
Focusing on representations of beards in English Renaissance culture, this study elucidates how fetish objects validate ideological systems of power by materializing complex value in multiple registers. Providing detailed discussions of not only bearded men...
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Focusing on representations of beards in English Renaissance culture, this study elucidates how fetish objects validate ideological systems of power by materializing complex value in multiple registers. Providing detailed discussions of not only bearded men but also beardless boys, bearded women, and half-bearded hermaphrodites, author Mark Albert Johnston argues that attending closely to early modern English culture's treatment of the beard as a fetish object ultimately exposes the contingency of categories like sex, gender, age, race, and sexuality.Johnston mines a diverse cross-section of contemporary discoursesadult and childrens drama, narrative verse and prose, popular ballads, epigrams and proverbs, historical accounts, pamphlet literature, diaries, letters, wills, court records and legal documents, medical and surgical manuals, lectures, sermons, almanacs, and calendarsin order to provide proof for his cultural claims. Johnstons evidence invokes some of the periods most famous voicesWilliam Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, John Lyly, Phillip Stubbes, John Marston, George Chapman, Thomas Dekker, Thomas Middleton, and Samuel Pepys, for examplebut Johnston also introduces us to an array of lesser-known Renaissance authors and playwrights whose works support the notion that the beard was a palimpsestic site of contested meaning at which complex and contradictory values clash and converge.Johnstons reading of Marxist, Freudian, and anthropological theories of the fetish phenomenon acknowledges their divergent emphaseserotic, economic, racial and religiouswhile suggesting that the imbrication of diverse registers that fetish accomplishes facilitates its cultural and psychic naturalizing function.
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- Autor: Dr Mark Albert Johnston
- 2013, 312 Seiten, Englisch
- ISBN-10: 1409478955
- ISBN-13: 9781409478959
- Erscheinungsdatum: 28.05.2013
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