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Prose fiction and early modern sexuality in England, 1570-1640

Title
Prose fiction and early modern sexuality in England, 1570-1640 / edited by Constance C. Relihan and Goran V. Stanivukovic.
Publication
  • New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
  • ©2003

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Additional Authors
  • Relihan, Constance Caroline.
  • Stanivukovic, Goran V.
Description
xv, 287 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.
Summary
"Prose Fiction and Early Modern Sexualities in England, 1570-1640, brings together twelve new essays that situate the arguments about the multiple constructions sexualities in prose fiction within contemporary critical and theoretical debates about the body, desire, gender, print and manuscript culture, postcoloniality, and cultural geography."--Jacket.
Series Statement
Early modern cultural studies
Uniform Title
Early modern cultural studies
Subject
  • 1500-1700
  • English fiction > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism
  • Sex in literature
  • Sex customs > England > History > 16th century
  • Sex customs > England > History > 17th century
  • Erotic stories, English > History and criticism
  • English fiction > Early modern
  • Erotic stories, English
  • Sex customs
  • Prosa
  • Erotik Motiv
  • England
  • Englisch
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-275) and index.
Contents
Introduction : Prose Fiction and Early Modern Sexualities in England, 1570-1640 / Constance C. Relihan and Goran V. Stanivukovic -- Part I. Gender, Genre, and Sexuality -- Love, Chastity and Woman's Erotic Power : Greek Romances in Elizabethan and Jacobean Context / Darlene C. Greenhalgh -- "Dissordinate Desire" and the Construction of Geographic Otherness in the Early Modern Novella / Constance C. Relihan -- Passion and Reason in Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia / Lisa Hopkins -- The Thigh and the Sword : Gender, Genre, and Sexy Dressing in Sidney's New Arcadia / Steven Mentz -- Prisoners of Love : Crosscultural and Supernatural Desires in Lady Mary Wroth's Urania / Sheila T. Cavanagh -- Part II. Queer Fictions -- Same Difference : Homo and Allo in Lyly's Euphues / Stephen Guy-Bray -- Rogue-Sirens : Urban Seductions and the Collapse of Amicitia / Morgan Holmes -- Gelding Gascoigne / Alan Stewart -- "Knights in Armes" : The Homoerotics of the English Renaissance Prose Romances / Goran V. Stanivukovic -- Part III. Textuality and Desire -- Emasculating Romance : Historical Fiction in the Protectorate / Elizabeth Sauer -- Sidney, Gascoigne and the "Bastard Poets" / Robert W. Maslen -- Unfolding the Shepherdess : A Revision of Pastoral / Lori Humphrey Newcomb.
ISBN
  • 1403963886
  • 9781403963888
LCCN
2003058080
OCLC
  • ocm52644471
  • 52644471
  • SCSB-14512961
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library