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Author Goldberg, Jonathan

Title Sodometries : Renaissance texts, modern sexualities / Jonathan Goldberg
Published New York : Fordham University Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 295 pages) : illustrations
Contents 'That Utterly Confused Caegory' -- Part 1: 'wee/men': Gender & Sexuality In the Formations of Elizabethan High Literariness. The Making of Courtly Makers -- Spenser's Familiar Letters -- Part 2: 'Play the Sodomits, or Worse': The Elizabetban Theater. The Transvestite Stage: More on the Case of Christopher Marlowe -- Desiring Hal -- Part 3: The New World. Discovering America -- Bradford's Ancient Members' & "A Case of Buggery ... Amongst Them" -- Tailpiece: From William Bradford to William Buckley
Summary 'Sodometries' has decisively shaped work in the history of sexuality for the last decade and remains a critical text for this developing field ... Goldberg's work is already a classic and has not been superseded."--Karen Newman, New York University
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
Sodomy in literature.
Male homosexuality in literature.
Sexual orientation in literature.
Sodomy -- Political aspects -- United States -- History
Homosexuality -- Political aspects -- United States -- History
Homophobia -- United States -- History
English literature -- Early modern
Homophobia
Homosexuality -- Political aspects
Male homosexuality in literature
Sexual orientation in literature
Sodomy in literature
United States
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2009047716
ISBN 9780823241217
0823241211
9780823249022
0823249026