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Contents
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
Index
