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RESEARCH PRODUCT

“Speaking in Terror: Femininity, Monstrosity and ‘Race’ in Early Modern Culture”

Maurizio Calbi

subject

Gender race sixteenth- and seventeenth-century drama anatomy orientalismSettore L-LIN/10 - Letteratura Inglese

description

The chapter examines how the intersecting vectors of gender and race contribute to the configuration of monstrosity in early modern drama and anatomy, and how this construction is simultaneously powerful and haunted by the fear of the 'other'.

http://hdl.handle.net/11386/1000935