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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784112203321

Autore

Gil Daniel Juan

Titolo

Before intimacy [[electronic resource] ] : asocial sexuality in early modern England / / Daniel Juan Gil

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, Minn. ; ; London, : University of Minnesota Press, c2006

ISBN

0-8166-9758-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (206 p.)

Disciplina

820.9353809031

Soggetti

English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism

Literature and society - England - History - 16th century

Literature and society - England - History - 17th century

Sex customs - England - History - 16th century

Sex customs - England - History - 17th century

Sex in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-180) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The social structure of passion -- Intimacy and the eroticism of social distance : Sidney's Astrophil and Stella and Spenser's Amoretti -- Civility and the emotional topography of The Faerie queene -- At the limits of the social world : fear and pride in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida -- Poetic autonomy and the history of sexuality in Shakespeare's sonnets.

Sommario/riassunto

Daniel Juan Gil examines sixteenth-century English literary concepts of sexuality that frame erotic ties as neither bound by social customs nor transgressive of them, but rather as "loopholes" in people's associations. Engaging Sidney's Astrophil and Stella, Spenser's The Faerie Queene, and Shakespeare's Sonnets, among others Gil demonstrates how sexuality was conceived as a relationship system not institutionalized in a domestic realm.