| Description |
vii, 329 p. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
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Sex -- England -- History.
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Sex in literature.
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Intimacy (Psychology) in literature.
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English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Bromley, James M., 1978-
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Stockton, Will.
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Traub, Valerie.
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9780816680764 (hbk. : acid-free paper) |
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9780816680771 (pb : acid-free paper) |
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9781452939476 (electronic bk.) |
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