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OverviewWhat is sex exactly? Does everyone agree on a definition? And does that definition hold when considering literary production in other times and places? Sex before Sex makes clear that we cannot simply transfer our contemporary notions of what constitutes a sex act into the past and expect them to be true for the people who were then reading literature and watching plays. The contributors confront how our current critical assumptions about definitions of sex restrict our understanding of representations of sexuality in early modern England. Drawing attention to overlooked forms of sexual activity in early modern culture, from anilingus and interspecies sex to ""chin-chucking"" and convivial drinking, Sex before Sex offers a multifaceted view of what sex looked like before the term entered history. Through incisive interpretations of a wide range of literary texts, including Romeo and Juliet, The Comedy of Errors, Paradise Lost, the figure of Lucretia, and pornographic poetry, this collection queries what might constitute sex in the absence of a widely accepted definition and how a historicized concept of sex affects the kinds of arguments that can be made about early modern sexualities. Contributors: Holly Dugan, George Washington U; Will Fisher, CUNYLehman College; Stephen Guy-Bray, U of British Columbia; Melissa J. Jones, Eastern Michigan U; Thomas H. Luxon, Dartmouth College; Nicholas F. Radel, Furman U; Kathryn Schwarz, Vanderbilt U; Christine Varnado, U of BuffaloSUNY. Full Product DetailsAuthor: James M. Bromley , Will StocktonPublisher: University of Minnesota Press Imprint: University of Minnesota Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.408kg ISBN: 9780816680771ISBN 10: 0816680779 Pages: 320 Publication Date: 15 February 2013 Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction: Figuring Early Modern Sex Will Stockton and James M. Bromley 1. “Invisible Sex!”: What Looks Like the Act in Early Modern Drama? Christine Varnado 2. Death and Theory: Or, the Problem of Counterfactual Sex Kathryn Schwarz 3. Spectacular Impotence: Or, Things that Hardly Ever Happen in the Critical History of Pornography Melissa J. Jones 4. “Unmanly Passion”: Sodomitical Self-Fashioning in John Ford’s The Lover’s Melancholy and Perkin Warbeck Nicholas F. Radel 5. The Erotics of Chin-chucking in Seventeenth-Century England Will Fisher 6. Rimming the Renaissance James M. Bromley 7. Animal, Vegetable, Sexual: Metaphor in John Donne’s “Sappho to Philaenis” and Andrew Marvell’s “The Garden” Stephen Guy-Bray 8. Aping Rape: Animal Ravishment and Sexual Knowledge in Early Modern England Holly Dugan 9. The Seduction of Milton’s Lady: Rape, Psychoanalysis, and the Erotics of Consumption in “Comus” Will Stockton 10 “How human life began”: Sexual Reproduction in Book 8 of Paradise Lost Thomas H. Luxon Afterword Valerie Traub Contributors IndexReviewsAuthor InformationJames M. Bromley is assistant professor of English at Miami University. He is the author of Intimacy and Sexuality in the Age of Shakespeare. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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