| Description |
1 online resource (630 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Works Cited; Introduction: Caxton, Foucault, and the Pleasures of History; Notes; Works Cited; Part One: The Erotics of Conquest; 1: The History that Will Be; Notes; Works Cited; 2: In Search of the Black Stud; 1. Tall, Dark, and Handsome; 2. Hands-on Experience; 3. Erotic Militancy; 4. Loving Soldiers; 5. Visionary Guts; 6. National Seedlings; 7. Naked Ideals; 8. Overly Sated; 9. Model Blackness; 10. Coda; Notes; Works Cited; 3: The Queen's Too Bawdies: El burlador de Sevilla and the Teasing of Historicity |
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The Queen's too BawdiesEl Burlador de Sevilla and the Teasing of Historicity; Notes; Works Cited; 4: Henry's Desires; Notes; Works Cited; Part Two: Medicine and Law; 5: "Ut cum muliere": A Male Transvestite Prostitute in Fourteenth-Century London; Appendix; Notes; Works Cited; 6: The Hermaphrodite and the Orders of Nature: Sexual Ambiguity in Early Modern France; Double or between? Medieval and Early Modern Models of Hermaphroditism; Hermaphrodites and the Order of Nature; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; 7: Don't Ask, Don't Tell: Murderous Plots and Medieval Secrets; Murderous Plot I |
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Murderous Plot IIMurderous Plot III; Notes; Works Cited; Part Three: Sexuality and Sanctity; 8: Straight Minds/"Queer" Wishes in Old French Hagiography: La Vie de Sainte Euphrosine; Notes; Works Cited; 9: Sobs and Sighs Between Women: The Homoerotics of Compassion in The Book of Margery Kempe; Visual Pleasure and Liturgical Spectacle; Holy Babies, Phallic Mothers; Envisioned Compassions; Notes; Works Cited; Part Four: Rhetoric and Poetics; 10: Virile Style; Notes; Works Cited; 11: Explicit Ink; Seminar; Mechanical Arts; Scriptorium; Notes; Works Cited |
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12: Sodomy and Resurrection: The Homoerotic Subject of the Divine Comedy1.; 2.; 3.; 4.; Notes; Works Cited; Contributors |
| Summary |
Premodern Sexualities offers rigorous new approaches to current problems in the historiography of sexuality. From queer readings of early modern medical texts to transcribing and interrogating premodern documents of sexual transgression, the contributors bring together current theoretical discourses on sexuality while emphasizing problems in the historicist interpretation of early textualizations of sexuality. Premodern Sexualities clarifies the contributions literary studies can make--through its emphasis on reading strategies--to the historiography of sexuality |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Freccero, Carla
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| ISBN |
9781317795803 |
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1317795806 |
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