Sex Before Sex [electronic resource] : figuring the act in early modern England / James M. Bromley and Will Stockton, editors ; afterword by Valerie Traub.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Minneapolis ; London : University of Minnesota Press, 2013.Description: vii, 329 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 820.9/353809031 23
LOC classification:
  • PR428.S48 S49 2013eb
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Contents:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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