Queer Philologies : Sex, Language, and Affect in Shakespeare's Time / Jeffrey Masten.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Masten, Jeffrey, author.

Series:

Material texts.

Material Texts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English literature.

Language and sex--England--History--16th century.

Language and sex.

Language and sex--England--History--17th century.

Homosexuality and literature--England--History--16th century.

Homosexuality and literature.

Homosexuality and literature--England--History--17th century.

English language--Early modern, 1500-1700.

English language.

Sex in literature.

England.

Genre:

History

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (308 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For Jeffrey Masten, the history of sexuality and the history of language are intimately related. In Queer Philologies, he studies particular terms that illuminate the history of sexuality in Shakespeare's time and analyzes the methods we have used to study sex and gender in literary and cultural history. Building on the work of theorists and historians who have, following Foucault, investigated the importance of words like "homosexual," "sodomy," and "tribade" in a variety of cultures and historical periods, Masten argues that just as the history of sexuality requires the history of language, so too does philology, "the love of the word," require the analytical lens provided by the study of sexuality. Masten unpacks the etymology, circulation, transformation, and constitutive power of key words within the early modern discourse of sex and gender--terms such as "conversation" and "intercourse," "fundament" and "foundation," "friend" and "boy"--That described bodies, pleasures, emotions, sexual acts, even (to the extent possible in this period) sexual identities. Analyzing the continuities as well as differences between Shakespeare's language and our own, he offers up a queer lexicon in which the letter "Q" is perhaps the queerest character of all.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents (A)

Contents (Q)

Note on Citations and Quotations

Introduction. On Q: An Introduction to Queer Philology

Chapter 1. Spelling Shakespeare: Early Modern "Orthography" and the Secret Lives of Shakespeare's Compositors

Lexicon 1. Friendship

Chapter 2. "Sweet Persuasion," the Taste of Letters, and Male Friendship

Chapter 3. Extended "Conversation": Living with Christopher Marlowe; a Brief History of "Intercourse"

Lexicon 2. Boy-Desire

Chapter 4. Reading "Boys": Performance and Print

Chapter 5. "Amorous Leander," Boy-desire, Gay Shame; Or, Straightening Out Christopher Marlowe

Lexicon 3. Sodomy

Chapter 6. Is the Fundament a Grave? Translating the Early Modern Body

Chapter 7. When Genres Breed: "Mongrell Tragicomedie" and Queer Kinship

Editing Philologies

Chapter 8. All Is Not Glossed: Editing Sex, Race, Gender, and Affect in Shakespeare

Chapter 9. More or Less Queer: Female "Bumbast" in Sir Thomas More

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgments

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 19. Feb 2019)

ISBN:

9780812293173

0812293177

OCLC:

959867653