Erotic subjects : the sexuality of politics in early modern English literature /

This volume demonstrates that if we treat 16th- and 17th-century erotic literature as part of English political history, both fields of study will look rather different. Sanchez traces implications of two early modern commonplaces.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Sanchez, Melissa E.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Subjects:	English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism. Politics and literature. Sex (Psychology) Literature and society > England > History > 16th century. Literature and society > England > History > 17th century. Politique et littérature. Sexualité (Psychologie) Littérature et société > Angleterre > Histoire > 16e siècle. Littérature et société > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siècle. LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. English literature > Early modern Literature and society Politics and literature England 1500-1700 Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History
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Table of Contents:

Erotic subjects in English history
"She therein ruling": hagiographic politics in the Countess of Pembroke's arcadia
"Who can loue the worker of her smart?": tyrannous seduction in The faerie queene
"Accessory yieldings": consent without agency in The rape of Lucrece and Pericles
"Love, thou dost master me": political masochism in Mary Wroth's Urania
"It is consent that makes a perfect slave": love and liberty in the Caroline Masque
"Honest Margaret Newcastle": law and desire in Margaret Cavendish's romances
"My self/before me": the erotics of republicanism in Paradise lost
"Lives there who loves his pain?"