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OverviewThe ""rogue,"" a term that described criminals, prostitutes, vagrants, beggars, and the unemployed, dominated the pages of early modern popular crime literature. Rogue Sexuality resituates the rogue by focusing on how their menace--and their seductive appeal--emerged not only from their social marginality, but also from their supposedly excessive sexuality and prodigious sexual reproduction. Through discussions of both familiar and little-studied early modern works by William Shakespeare, John Milton, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, Thomas Dekker, Robert Greene, Thomas Harman, and the inventor of modern demography John Graunt, this volume posits the sexualized rogue as the avatar of a new category of ""socio-sexual identity"" and traces a surprising social transposition, in which socio-political elites are portrayed as appropriating the rogue's sexual vitality and performative charisma to navigate moments of crisis. By tracking the movement of rogue sexuality from a criminal to a normative discursive register, this book challenges the distinctions that literary critics and historians tend to draw between orderly and disorderly sexuality. With its focus on reproduction, rogue sexuality also provides a new framework for what Michel Foucault called ""biopolitics,"" the state's focus on exercising power over life. In legal, administrative, and scientific documents, this book shows that early modern writers grappled with popular pamphlets' rendering of the alleged threat of rogue reproduction. Rogue Sexuality thus offers a new approach to the political history of early modern England as a population--as a people whose aggregate sexual life and reproduction were a key part of its political imagination. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Ari Friedlander (Assistant Professor of English, University of Mississippi)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.40cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 24.00cm Weight: 0.496kg ISBN: 9780192863171ISBN 10: 0192863177 Pages: 224 Publication Date: 23 June 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsIntroduction: Rogue Sexuality 1: Rogue Curious: Sexuality, Etiology, and the Paths of Allo-Identification in Early Modern Rogue Literature 2: Gender, Mastery, and Sexual Cozening in the Rogue Querelle des Femmes and Ben Jonson's Epicoene 3: A Promiscuous Generation: Labor, Rogue Reproduction, and the Politics of Biopolitics 4: Roguery, Bastardy, and Biopolitics in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale 5: Rogue Sexuality's Afterlives, or Milton's Charitable Divorce and the Rise of Companionate Marriage Coda: Rogue MethodologyReviewsRogue Sexuality is original, compelling, and timely. It makes a crucial intervention in early modern sexuality studies by centering labor and class (both the representation of low status and the appropriation of it by elites), and by demonstrating how a Foucaultian biopolitics illuminates concerns about poverty, sexual reproduction, and social order in early modern England. It will change how we theorize the relationship between the social and the sexual in early modern texts. * Mario DiGangi * Author InformationAri Friedlander is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Mississippi. His scholarship on sexuality, class, and disability in early modern English literature has been published in SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, JEMCS: Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment, and other venues. His research has been supported by grants from the Henry E. Huntington Library, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Volkswagen Foundation. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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