Erotic subjects: the sexuality of politics in early modern English literature
Sanchez, Melissa E.
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A distinctive study of how sixteenth- and seventeenth-century writers--mainlySidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, Wroth, and Cavendish--used erotic desire, masochism, and cross-gender identification to explore the origins and limits of political allegiance; thereby offering new perspectives on histories of gender, sexuality, politics, and literature during the period. INDICE: Introduction; Hagiographic Politics in The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia; Tyrannous Seduction in The Faerie Queene; Consent Without Agency in The Rape of Lucrece and Pericles; Political Masochism in Mary Wroth's Urania; Love and Liberty in the Caroline Masque; Law and Desire in Margaret Cavendish'sRomances; The Erotics of Republicanism in Paradise Lost; Index
- ISBN: 978-0-19-975475-5
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 304
- Fecha Publicación: 01/05/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés