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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



Sex before Sex Figuring the Act in Early Modern

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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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