L’Hermaphrodite de la Renaissance aux Lumieres

edited by Marianne Closson

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Extent: 415 pages

Publisher: Classiques Garnier

Subjects: Early Modern & Renaissance Studies, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Gender & Sexuality

Series: Masculin/feminin dans l'Europe moderne

Series volume number: 5, 1

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(November 2013)

ISBN: 9782812412684

5.91 x 8.62 inches

Price: $41.00

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Hardback (Published)

(November 2013)

ISBN: 9782812412691

5.91 x 8.62 inches

Price: $72.00

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The hermaphrodite is at once both an ideal of lost unity and an anatomical reality. Between the sixteenth and the eighteenth century, it occupied a strategic place in numerous intellectual fields and artistic representations, interrogating the frontiers between masculinity and femininity, normality and monstrosity, myth and reality.

  • Edited by Marianne Closson