Sex Before Sex : figuring the act in early modern England / / James M. Bromley and Will Stockton, editors ; afterword by Valerie Traub.

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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:vii, 329 p.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Figuring early modern sex / Will Stockton and James M. Bromley
  • "Invisible sex!": What looks like the act in early modern drama? / Christine Varnado
  • Death and theory: Or, the problem of counterfactual sex / Kathryn Schwarz
  • Spectacular impotence: Or, things that hardly ever happen in the critical history of pornography / Melissa J. Jones
  • "Unmanly passion": Sodomitical self-fashioning in John Ford's The Lover's Melancholy and Perkin Warbeck / Nicholas F. Radel
  • The erotics of chin-chucking in seventeenth-century England / Will Fisher
  • Rimming the Renaissance / James M. Bromley
  • Animal, vegetable, sexual: Metaphor in John Donne's "Sappho to Philaenis" and Andrew Marvell's "The garden" / Stephen Guy-Bray
  • Aping rape: Animal ravishment and sexual knowledge in early modern England / Holly Dugan
  • The seduction of Milton's lady: Rape, psychoanalysis, and the erotics of consumption in "Comus" / Will Stockton
  • "How human life began": Sexual reproduction in Book 8 of Paradise Lost / Thomas H. Luxon
  • Afterword / Valerie Traub.