Premodern sexualities

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Premodern sexualities

edited by Louise Fradenburg and Carla Freccero ; with the assistance of Kathy Lavezzo

Routledge, 1996

  • : hbk
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references

Contents of Works

  • The history that will be / Jonathan Goldberg
  • In search of the black stud / José Piedra
  • The queen's too [sic] bawdies : El burlador de Sevilla and the Teasing of historicity / María Carrión
  • Henry's desires / Richard Corum
  • "Ut cum muliere" : a male transvestite prostitute in fourteenth century London / Ruth Mazo Karras and David Lorenzo Boyd
  • The hermaphrodite and the orders of nature : sexual ambiguity in early modern France / Lorraine Daston and Katharine Park
  • Don't ask, don't tell : murderous plots and medieval secrets / Karma Lochrie
  • Straight minds/"queer" wishes in old French hagiography : La vie de Sainte Euphrosine / Simon Gaunt
  • Sobs and sighs between women : the homoerotics of compassion in The book of Margery Kempe / Kathy Lavezzo
  • Virile style / Patricia Parker
  • Explicit ink / Elizabeth Pittenger
  • Sodomy and resurrection : the homoerotic subject of the Divine comedy / Bruce Holsinger

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Premodern Sexualities offers rigorous new approaches to current problems in the historiography of sexuality. From queer readings of early modern medical texts to transcribing and interrogating premodern documents of sexual transgression, the contributors bring together current theoretical discourses on sexuality while emphasizing problems in the historicist interpretation of early textualizations of sexuality. Premodern Sexualities clarifies the contributions literary studies can make--through its emphasis on reading strategies--to the historiography of sexuality.

Table of Contents

  • 1: The Erotics of Conquest
  • 1: The History that Will Be
  • 2: In Search of the Black Stud
  • 3: The Queen's Too Bawdies
  • 4: Henry's Desires
  • 2: Medicine and Law
  • 5: "Ut cum muliere"
  • 6: The Hermaphrodite and the Orders of Nature
  • 7: Don't Ask, Don't Tell
  • 3: Sexuality and Sanctity
  • 8: Straight Minds/"Queer" Wishes in Old French Hagiography
  • 9: Sobs and Sighs Between Women
  • 4: Rhetoric and Poetics
  • 10: Virile Style
  • 11: Explicit Ink
  • 12: Sodomy and Resurrection

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