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Erotic subjects the sexuality of politics in early modern English literature

Title
Erotic subjects [electronic resource] : the sexuality of politics in early modern English literature / Melissa E. Sanchez.
Author
Sanchez, Melissa E.
Publication
New York : Oxford University Press, c2011.

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Description
1 online resource (xi, 283 p.)
Uniform Title
Erotic subjects (Online)
Alternative Title
Erotic subjects (Online)
Subject
  • English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism
  • Politics and literature
  • Sex (Psychology)
  • Literature and society > England > History > 16th century
  • Literature and society > England > History > 17th century
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-271) and index.
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Contents
Erotic subjects in English history -- "She therein ruling": hagiographic politics in the Countess of Pembroke's arcadia -- "Who can loue the worker of her smart?": tyrannous seduction in The faerie queene -- "Accessory yieldings": consent without agency in The rape of Lucrece and Pericles -- "Love, thou dost master me": political masochism in Mary Wroth's Urania -- "It is consent that makes a perfect slave": love and liberty in the Caroline Masque -- "Honest Margaret Newcastle": law and desire in Margaret Cavendish's romances -- "My self/before me": the erotics of republicanism in Paradise lost -- "Lives there who loves his pain?".
LCCN
2010029641
OCLC
ssj0000468878
Author
Sanchez, Melissa E.
Title
Erotic subjects [electronic resource] : the sexuality of politics in early modern English literature / Melissa E. Sanchez.
Imprint
New York : Oxford University Press, c2011.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-271) and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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