Rogue sexuality in early modern English literature : desire, status, biopolitics /

"The 'rogue,' a term that described criminals, prostitutes, vagrants, beggars, and the unemployed, dominated the pages of early modern popular crime literature. Rogue Sexuality resituates the rogue by focusing on how their menace-and the seductive appeal-emerged not only from their so...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Friedlander, Ari (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, [2022]
Subjects:	Rogues and vagabonds in literature. Sex in literature. English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism. Vagabonds dans la littérature. Sexualité dans la littérature. English literature > Early modern Rogues and vagabonds in literature Sex in literature Literature: history & criticism. Literature. 1500-1700 Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Literary criticism Literary criticism. Critiques littéraires.
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Table of Contents:

Cover
Titlepage
Copyright
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Contents
List of Figures
Introduction: Rogue Sexuality
1 Rogue Curious: Sexuality, Etiology, and the Paths of Allo-Identification in Early Modern Rogue Literature
2 Gender, Mastery, and Sexual Cozening in the Rogue Querelle des Femmes and Ben Jonson's Epicoene
3 A Promiscuous Generation: Labor, Rogue Reproduction, and the Politics of Biopolitics
4 Roguery, Bastardy, and Biopolitics in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale
5 Rogue Sexuality's Afterlives, or Milton's Charitable Divorce and the Rise of Companionate Marriage
Coda Rogue Methodology
Bibliography
Index