Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Fearful fluidity: Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy
- 2 Purity and the dissemination of knowledge in Bacon's new science
- 3 Publishing chastity: Shakespeare's “The Rape of Lucrece”
- 4 The anatomy of masculine desire in Love's Labor's Lost
- 5 Inscriptions of difference: cross-dressing, androgyny and the anatomical imperative
- 6 Ocular proof: sexual jealousy and the anxiety of interpretation
- Notes
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Fearful fluidity: Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy
- 2 Purity and the dissemination of knowledge in Bacon's new science
- 3 Publishing chastity: Shakespeare's “The Rape of Lucrece”
- 4 The anatomy of masculine desire in Love's Labor's Lost
- 5 Inscriptions of difference: cross-dressing, androgyny and the anatomical imperative
- 6 Ocular proof: sexual jealousy and the anxiety of interpretation
- Notes
- Index
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1996