Erotic subjects : the sexuality of politics in early modern English literature /
Sanchez, Melissa E.
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
c2011.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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?".
English literature
Politics and literature.
Sex (Psychology)
Literature and society
Literature and society