{"product_id":"hercules-and-the-king-of-portugal-9781496207739","title":"Hercules and the King of Portugal","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInvestigates how representations of masculinity figure in the fashioning of Spanish national identity, scrutinizing ways that gender performances of two early modern male icons - Hercules and King Sebastian - are structured to express enduring nationhood. Dian Fox's analysis exposes how the two icons are subject to political manipulations in seventeenth-century Spanish theatre and other media.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is an eloquently written and persuasively argued groundbreaking study. Fox’s writing is erudite, yet easily approachable, engaging, and superbly readable. Those interested in early modern Spanish theater generally and in Calderón de la Barca particularly will find the work of this established scholar extremely valuable. Fox’s book accomplishes a great deal, going beyond a literary study to document the sociohistorical circumstances and contexts in which both Hercules and King Sebastian were made and unmade into early modern cultural icons of masculinity and nation. Her book will have a wide appeal among scholars and students who are interested in questions of masculinity from a historical, social, and cultural perspective.\"—José R. Cartagena-Calderón, \u003ci\u003eBulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Erudite and thought-provoking, \u003ci\u003eHercules and the King of Portugal\u003c\/i\u003e casts new light on the performance of masculinity in two of Iberia’s foundational icons. This is a pivotal study not only on the cultural renderings of the \u003ci\u003ehombre esquivo\u003c\/i\u003e but also on early modern conceptions of family, lineage, and nationhood.”—Enrique García Santo-Tomás, Frank P. Casa Collegiate Professor of Spanish, University of Michigan\u003cbr\u003e“A compelling study of the crisis of masculinity shaping seventeenth-century Spanish and Portuguese nationhood. Fox brilliantly analyzes theatrical representations of Hercules and King Sebastian that dramatize damage done by an excess or lack of sexual desire to marriage alliances that secure the pure blood fundamental to honor.”—Barbara F. Weissberger, author of \u003ci\u003eIsabel Rules: Constructing Queenship, Wielding Power\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Dian Fox’s perceptive analysis of the complex cultural appropriation of both flawed masculine figures for political, nationalist, and imperial ends astutely uncovers anxieties in ideological conceptions of manhood and nationhood in Habsburg Spain. Fox’s writing is erudite yet easily approachable, engaging, and superbly readable. Her book will have a wide appeal among scholars and students who are interested in questions of masculinity from a historical, social, and cultural perspective.”—José R. Cartagena-Calderón, associate professor of Romance languages and literatures at Pomona College and author of \u003ci\u003eMasculinidades en obras\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e List of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Honor, Gender, and (Spanish) Nation\u003cbr\u003e Part 1. Hercules\u003cbr\u003e 2. Hercules Hispanicus\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Deaths of Hercules\u003cbr\u003e 4. Hercules Redux: Transvestism and the Hombre Esquivo\u003cbr\u003e Part 2. King Sebastian\u003cbr\u003e 5. En Route to King Sebastian\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Once and Future King: Sebastian and Sebastianisms\u003cbr\u003e 7. Staging Sebastian: The Body that Mattered\u003cbr\u003e 8. Conclusions\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409222508887,"sku":"9781496207739","price":40.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496207739.jpg?v=1730506014","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/hercules-and-the-king-of-portugal-9781496207739","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}