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Table of Contents


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



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    Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
    Publication Date: 15/02/2013
    ISBN13: 9780816680771, 978-0816680771
    ISBN10: 0816680779

    Description

    Book Synopsis


    Table of Contents


    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



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