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Sex Before Sex Figuring The Act In Early Modern England 1st Edition James M Bromley Editor

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Sex Before Sex Figuring The Act In Early Modern England 1st Edition James M Bromley Editor
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Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
File Extension: PDF
File size: 15.35 MB
Pages: 320
Author: James M. Bromley (editor), Will Stockton (editor), Valerie Traub (Afterword)
ISBN: 9780816680764, 0816680760
Language: English
Year: 2013
Edition: 1

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Sex Before Sex Figuring The Act In Early Modern England 1st Edition James M Bromley Editor by James M. Bromley (editor), Will Stockton (editor), Valerie Traub (afterword) 9780816680764, 0816680760 instant download after payment.

What is sex exactly? Does everyone agree on a definition? And does that definition hold when considering literary production in other times and places? Sex before Sex makes clear that we cannot simply transfer our contemporary notions of what constitutes a sex act into the past and expect them to be true for the people who were then reading literature and watching plays. The contributors confront how our current critical assumptions about definitions of sex restrict our understanding of representations of sexuality in early modern England.

Drawing attention to overlooked forms of sexual activity in early modern culture, from anilingus and interspecies sex to “chin-chucking” and convivial drinking, Sex before Sex offers a multifaceted view of what sex looked like before the term entered history. Through incisive interpretations of a wide range of literary texts, including Romeo and Juliet, The Comedy of Errors, Paradise Lost, the figure of Lucretia, and pornographic poetry, this collection queries what might constitute sex in the absence of a widely accepted definition and how a historicized concept of sex affects the kinds of arguments that can be made about early modern sexualities.

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