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Erotic subjects : the sexuality of politics in early modern English literature / Melissa E. Sanchez.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sanchez, Melissa E.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Politics and literature.
- Sex (Psychology).
- Literature and society--England--History--16th century.
- Literature and society.
- Literature and society--England--History--17th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (296 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume demonstrates that if we treat 16th- and 17th-century erotic literature as part of English political history, both fields of study will look rather different. Sanchez traces implications of two early modern commonplaces.
- 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?".
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-020866-X
- 0-19-935436-7
- 9786613096425
- 0-19-984249-3
- 1-283-09642-0
- OCLC:
- 922970269
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