Queer Renaissance historiography
Subtitle: backward gaze
By: [edited] by Stephen Guy-Bray, Vin Nardizzi, and Will Stockton.
Contributors: Guy-Bray, Stephen.; Nardizzi, Vincent Joseph, 1978-; Stockton, Will.
Series: Queer interventions
Publisher: Ashgate Pub. Company
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9780754676089; 9780754697954
Subjects: Homosexuality -- Great Britain -- History; Homosexuality in literature; Renaissance
Description: This title collects original contributions from leading experts, participating in a range of critical conversations whilst prompting scholars and students alike to reconsider what we think we know about sex and sexuality in Renaissance England.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Queer renaissance historiography : backward gaze / Stephen Guy-Bray, Vin Nardizzi, and Will Stockton; title: A hundred years of queering the Renaissance / Will Fisher; title: Beyond sodomy : what is still queer about early modern queer studies? / Goran Stanivukovi; title: "Let it suffise' : sexual acts and narrative structure in Hero and Leander / James M. Bromley; title: Diana's band : safe spaces, publics, and early modern lesbianism / Jennifer Drouin; title: Women's secretaries / Julie Crawford; title: The touch of office : supernumerary economies and the Tudor public figure / Laurie Shannon; title: Grafter to Falstaff and compounded with Catherine : mingling Hal in the second tetralogy / Vin Nardizzi; title: Andrew Marvell and sexual difference / Stephen Guy-Bray; title: Sexuality and society in the poetry of Katherine Philips / Graham Hammill; title: Adam and Eve and the failure of heterosexuality / Will Stockton; title: Afterword : period cramps / Madhavi Menon.