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Sex before Sex : Figuring the Act in Early Modern England /
What is sex exactly? Does everyone agree on a definition? And does that definition hold when considering literary production in other times and places? This book 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...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
University of Minnesota Press,
[2013]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : Figuring early modern sex / Will Stockton and James M. Bromley
- "Invisible sex!" : What looks like the act in early modern drama? / Christine Varnado
- Death and theory : Or, the problem of counterfactual sex / Kathryn Schwarz
- Spectacular impotence : Or, things that hardly ever happen in the critical history of pornography / Melissa J. Jones
- "Unmanly passion" : Sodomitical self-fashioning in John Ford's The Lover's Melancholy and Perkin Warbeck / Nicholas F. Radel
- The erotics of chin-chucking in seventeenth-century England / Will Fisher
- Rimming the Renaissance / James M. Bromley
- Animal, vegetable, sexual : Metaphor in John Donne's "Sappho to Philaenis" and Andrew Marvell's "The garden" / Stephen Guy-Bray
- Aping rape : Animal ravishment and sexual knowledge in early modern England / Holly Dugan
- The seduction of Milton's lady : Rape, psychoanalysis, and the erotics of consumption in Comus / Will Stockton
- "How human life began" : Sexual reproduction in Book 8 of Paradise Lost / Thomas H. Luxon
- Afterword / Valerie Traub.