Sex Before Sex : figuring the act in early modern England / James M. Bromley and Will Stockton, editors ; afterword by Valerie Traub.
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Minneapolis ; London : University of Minnesota Press, 2013. |
| Description | vii, 329 pages |
| Supplemental Content | Click to View |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Bromley, James M., 1978- |
| Other author/creator | Stockton, Will. |
| Other author/creator | Traub, Valerie. |
| Other author/creator | ProQuest (Firm) |
| Contents | Introduction: Figuring early modern sex / Will Stockton and James M. Bromley -- "Invisible sex!": What looks like the act in early modern drama? / Christine Varnado -- Death and theory: Or, the problem of counterfactual sex / Kathryn Schwarz -- Spectacular impotence: Or, things that hardly ever happen in the critical history of pornography / Melissa J. Jones -- "Unmanly passion": Sodomitical self-fashioning in John Ford's The Lover's Melancholy and Perkin Warbeck / Nicholas F. Radel -- The erotics of chin-chucking in seventeenth-century England / Will Fisher -- Rimming the Renaissance / James M. Bromley -- Animal, vegetable, sexual: Metaphor in John Donne's "Sappho to Philaenis" and Andrew Marvell's "The garden" / Stephen Guy-Bray -- Aping rape: Animal ravishment and sexual knowledge in early modern England / Holly Dugan -- The seduction of Milton's lady: Rape, psychoanalysis, and the erotics of consumption in "Comus" / Will Stockton -- "How human life began": Sexual reproduction in Book 8 of Paradise Lost / Thomas H. Luxon -- Afterword / Valerie Traub. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2012043819 |