Before intimacy : asocial sexuality in early modern England / Daniel Juan Gil.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gil, Daniel Juan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

English literature.

Literature and society--England--History--16th century.

Literature and society.

Literature and society--England--History--17th century.

Sex customs--England--History--16th century.

Sex customs.

Sex customs--England--History--17th century.

Sex in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (206 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minn. ; London : University of Minnesota Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Daniel Juan Gil examines sixteenth-century English literary concepts of sexuality that frame erotic ties as neither bound by social customs nor transgressive of them, but rather as "loopholes" in people's associations. Engaging Sidney's Astrophil and Stella, Spenser's The Faerie Queene, and Shakespeare's Sonnets, among others Gil demonstrates how sexuality was conceived as a relationship system not institutionalized in a domestic realm.

Contents:

The social structure of passion

Intimacy and the eroticism of social distance : Sidney's Astrophil and Stella and Spenser's Amoretti

Civility and the emotional topography of The Faerie queene

At the limits of the social world : fear and pride in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida

Poetic autonomy and the history of sexuality in Shakespeare's sonnets.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-180) and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-9758-2

OCLC:

191935634