Dealing with questions of the meaning of eroticism in Renaissance England and its separation from other affective relations, Queer Renaissance Historiography examines the distinctive arrangement of sexuality during this period, and the role that queer theory has played in our understanding of this arrangement. As such this book not only reflects on the practice of writing a queer history of Renaissance England, but also suggests new directions for this practice.
Queer Renaissance Historiography collects original contributions from leading experts, participating in a range of critical conversations whilst prompting scholars and students alike to reconsider what we think we know about sex and sexuality in Renaissance England. Presenting ethical, political and critical analyses of Early Modern texts, this book sets the tone for future scholarship on Renaissance sexualities, making a timely intervention in theoretical and methodological debates.
Contents: Series Editors’ Preface: Renaissance sextualities; Queer Renaissance historiography: backward gaze, Stephen Guy-Bray, Vin Nardizzi and Will Stockton; A hundred years of queering the Renaissance, Will Fisher; Beyond sodomy: what is still queer about early modern queer studies?, Goran Stanivukovic; 'Let it suffise': sexual acts and narrative structure in Hero and Leander, James M. Bromley; Diana's band: safe spaces, publics, and early modern lesbianism, Jennifer Drouin; Women's secretaries, Julie Crawford; The touch of office: supernumerary economies and the Tudor public figure, Laurie Shannon; Grafted to Falstaff and compounded with Catherine: mingling Hal in the Second Tetralogy, Vin Nardizzi; Andrew Marvell and sexual difference, Stephen Guy-Bray; Sexuality and society in the poetry of Katherine Philips, Graham Hammill; Adam and Eve and the failure of heterosexuality, Will Stockton; Afterword: period cramps, Madhavi Menon; Index.
About the Editor: Stephen Guy-Bray is Professor of English at the University of British Columbia, Canada, Vin Nardizzi, Assistant Professor of English at the University of British Columbia, Canada and Will Stockton, Assistant Professor of English at Ball State University, US
Reviews: 'We know from the stories of Orpheus and of Lot that the “backward gaze” brings in its wake all kinds of queer, unsettling effects. The same can be said for Queer Renaissance Historiography. The sparks fly in these productively contentious essays which illuminatingly rethink queer scholarship’s relation to historicism. There is no end of surprises, provocations, and pleasures here.'
Richard Rambuss, Emory University, USA
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Chapter 1 - Queer Renaissance Historiography
Index