Homosexuality in Renaissance and Enlightenment England: Literary Representations in Historical ContextRoutledge, 26.11.2013 - 232 Seiten This new book significantly contributes to an increased understanding of the gay and lesbian experience as it illuminates important works of literature and clarifies the status of same-sex desire in English literature from 1500--1760. Homosexual themes can be found throughout the literature of the English Renaissance and Enlightenment, but only rarely are they direct and unambiguous. The essays here are engaged in a vital and necessary process of re-historicizing and re-contextualizing literature. Utilizing a variety of critical methods and proceeding from several different theoretical and ideological presuppositions, these essays raise important questions about the methodology of gay studies, about the conception of same-sex desire, about the depiction of homoerotics, and about the relationship of sexuality and textuality, even as they shed new light on the homosexual import of a number of significant works of literature. Among the authors studied are Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, John Donne, Lady Mary Wroth, Katherine Philips, Aphra Behn, John Cleland, and Thomas Gray. The collection attests both the current intellectual ferment in gay studies and the richness of English Renaissance and eighteenth-century literary representations of homosexuality.Homosexuality in Renaissance and Enlightenment England provides numerous insights into important works of literature and into significant theoretical issues implicit in the process of discerning and defining homosexuality in texts of earlier ages. All the contributors locate their texts in carefully delineated cultural and historical milieux. But they are not unduly constrained by either the tyranny of theory or the anxieties of anachronism. Rather than proceeding from hidebound or fashionably current ideologies, they sift the texts they study for the concrete evidence from which theories of sexuality might be constructed or modified. Hence, the collection will be valuable both for its practical criticism and for its theoretical contributions. It vividly illustrates the variety of gay studies in literature, especially as applied to works of earlier ages. |
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... heterosexual love in all its variety. Yet, as the two essays devoted to him in this collection attest, Donne is also a powerful—if hitherto unrecognized— poet of homosexual love and experience. The surprising example of Donne is yet ...
... heterosexual love in all its variety. Yet, as the two essays devoted to him in this collection attest, Donne is also a powerful—if hitherto unrecognized— poet of homosexual love and experience. The surprising example of Donne is yet ...
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... heterosexuality that dominated his age's literature and society. Not only does Donne make lesbianism a master trope for utopian sexuality, but, Mueller argues, he also configures lesbian self-sufficiency onto the economic plane as well ...
... heterosexuality that dominated his age's literature and society. Not only does Donne make lesbianism a master trope for utopian sexuality, but, Mueller argues, he also configures lesbian self-sufficiency onto the economic plane as well ...
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... heterosexuality that it ostensibly celebrates. In his contribution, George E. Haggerty deals not with the explicit depictions of sexual activity characteristic of Fanny Hill but with the indirect and subtle effects of Thomas Gray's ...
... heterosexuality that it ostensibly celebrates. In his contribution, George E. Haggerty deals not with the explicit depictions of sexual activity characteristic of Fanny Hill but with the indirect and subtle effects of Thomas Gray's ...
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... heterosexual” first came into being and were later promulgated by the new medical and social sciences.1 This position owes much to the pioneering work of Michel Foucault and Jeffrey Weeks, and spokespersons for it maintain, for example ...
... heterosexual” first came into being and were later promulgated by the new medical and social sciences.1 This position owes much to the pioneering work of Michel Foucault and Jeffrey Weeks, and spokespersons for it maintain, for example ...
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... heterosexual/patriarchal nuclear family and its values — e. g., the centrality and primacy of the (preferably married) male and father; the exaltation of biological procreation (and an ideally abundant procreation); the auxiliary ...
... heterosexual/patriarchal nuclear family and its values — e. g., the centrality and primacy of the (preferably married) male and father; the exaltation of biological procreation (and an ideally abundant procreation); the auxiliary ...
Inhalt
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Barnfield Shakespeare
and Subjective Desire | 41 |
Body Costume and Desire in Christopher Marlowe
| 69 |
By You My Love Is Sent
| 85 |
The Utopian Trope of Donnes Sapho to Philaenis
| 103 |
Sodomy and Kingcraft in Urania and Antony and Cleopatra
| 135 |
The Erotic in Poems of Katherine Philips and Aphra Behn
| 153 |
Fanny Hills Blinding Vision
| 173 |
Fanny Hill and the Rhetoric of Crossdressing
| 185 |
The Voice of Nature
in Grays Elegy
| 199 |
Index | 215 |
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Alan Bray Antony Antony and Cleopatra Aphra Behn Bacon Barnfield’s beauty Behn body Bray Carnal Prayer Mat Carr century Christopher Marlowe Cleland Cleopatra Cloris contemporary conventional Court critical culture death desire discussion Donne’s Donne’s Sapho Edward Elegy English epistle erotic essay Fanny Hill Fanny’s Faustus female friendship Ganymede gay studies gender Gray Gray’s Helen Heroides heterosexual Heywood History homoerotic homoeroticism homophobia homosexuality James James’s John Donne Jupiter Jupiter’s Katherine Philips King King’s language lesbian literary literature London loue lover Lucasia male homosexuality male-male Marlowe Marlowe’s masculine love meaning metaphors muse new-inventionism Ovid’s passion Philips play pleasure poem poet poet’s poetic poetry reader reference reflection relationship Renaissance rhetoric role same-sex Sapho to Philaenis scene sequence sexual Shakespeare social sodomite sonnet soul speaker suggests textual thee thou tion tradition trans tribadism Trumbach University verse letters woman women Woodward writing Wroth York young