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A provocative essay collection that theorizes the Renaissance through the lens of kink. The Kinky Renaissance is a groundbreaking collection of essays that explore kink as a theoretical analytic, a historical formation, and an aesthetic mode. The essays in this work expand the sexual archive and its lexicon by introducing new vocabularies to familiar sexual scenes in early modern literature and culture and by bringing lesser-known scenes to bear on the study of sexuality in the period. Providing a capacious theory of sexuality and historical precedents for contemporary kinky practices, The Kinky Renaissance explores the erotic potential of early modern literature and pauses over various kinks nestled between and beside them. The collection boldly argues for a broader concept of a kinky Renaissance—one which reorients the terms of both the history of sexuality and queer theory more broadly.

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Author:   Gillian Knoll ,  Joseph Gamble
Publisher:   Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US
Imprint:   Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780866988452

ISBN 10:   0866988459
Pages:   292
Publication Date:   06 July 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
Availability:   Awaiting stock  

Table of Contents

Introduction . A Renaissance of Kink, by Joseph Gamble and Gillian Knoll Part One: Revising Critical Narratives Chapter 1. “Mishapen Stuffe”: Pleasure and Restraint in Marlowe’s Hero and Leander, by James Yukiko Mulder Chapter 2. Cuckold Communities in the Kinky Early Modern, by Erika Lyn Carbonara Chapter 3. Kinky Herrick, by Gina Filo Part Two: Sexual Ethics Chapter 4. The Taming of the Shrew and Sex “in the midst of the street,” by Erin E. Kelly Chapter 5. “What pretty new device”: Bondage and Liminality in Beaumont and Fletcher’s The Maid’s Tragedy, by Nathaniel C. Leonard Chapter 6. Shakespeare’s (Into) Race Play, by Kirk Quinsland Part Three: Representational Quandaries and Kinky Solutions Chapter 7. Early Modern Money Shots, by Beatrice Bradley Chapter 8. Fletcher’s Golden Showers, by Heather Frazier Chapter 9. Pandora, Kneeling, by Gillian Knoll Conclusion. Aftercare, by Christine Varnado

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Gillian Knoll is associate professor of English at Western Kentucky University and the author of Conceiving Desire: Metaphor, Cognition, and Eros in Lyly and Shakespeare. Joseph Gamble is assistant professor of English at the University of Toledo and the author of Sex Lives: Intimate Infrastructures in Early Modernity.

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