Before intimacy
Subtitle: asocial sexuality in early modern England
By: Daniel Juan Gil.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press; Univ Of Minnesota Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
Subjects: English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism; Sex in literature; Literature and society -- England -- History -- 16th century; Literature and society -- England -- History -- 17th century; Sex customs -- England -- History -- 16th century; Sex customs -- England -- History -- 17th century; Man-woman relationships in literature; Intimacy (Psychology) in literature; Sex (Psychology) in literature; Emotions in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The social structure of passion; title: Intimacy and the eroticism of social distance : Sidney's Astrophil and Stella and Spenser's Amoretti; title: Civility and the emotional topography of The Faerie queene; title: At the limits of the social world : fear and pride in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida; title: Poetic autonomy and the history of sexuality in Shakespeare's sonnets.