Author : Grace Tiffany
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874135503
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Erotic Beasts and Social Monsters by : Grace Tiffany
Download or read book Erotic Beasts and Social Monsters written by Grace Tiffany and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The voluminous contemporary critical work on English Renaissance androgyny/transvestism has not fully uncovered the ancient Greek and Roman roots of the gender controversy. This work argues that the variant Renaissance views on the androgyne's symbolism are, in fact, best understood with reference to classical representations of the double-sexed or gender-baffled figures, and with the classical merging of the figure with images of beasts and monsters.