LEADER 05585oam 2200949zu 450 001 9910956927003321 005 20251117101712.0 010 $a1-4529-3947-0 035 $a(CKB)2670000000411846 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000983655 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11560157 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000983655 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10989116 035 $a(PQKB)10936788 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1366331 035 $a(BIP)45588417 035 $a(BIP)41740794 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000411846 100 $a20160829d2013 uy 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aSex Before Sex : Figuring the Act in Early Modern England 205 $a1st ed. 210 31$a[Place of publication not identified]$cUniversity of Minnesota Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (332 pages) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a0-8166-8077-9 327 $aCover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Figuring Early Modern Sex -- Chapter 1: "Invisible Sex!": What Looks Like the Act in Early Modern Drama? -- Chapter 2: Death and Theory: Or, the Problem of Counterfactual Sex -- Chapter 3: Spectacular Impotence: Or, Things That Hardly Ever Happen in the Critical History of Pornography -- Chapter 4: "Unmanly Passion": Sodomitical Self-Fashioning in John Ford's The Lover's Melancholy and Perkin Warbeck -- Chapter 5: The Erotics of Chin Chucking in Seventeenth-Century England -- Chapter 6: Rimming the Renaissance -- Chapter 7: Animal, Vegetable, Sexual: Metaphor in John Donne's "Sappho to Philaenis" and Andrew Marvell's "The Garden -- Chapter 8: Aping Rape: Animal Ravishment and Sexual Knowledge in Early Modern England -- Chapter 9: The Seduction of Milton's Lady: Rape, Psychoanalysis, and the Erotics of Consumption in Comus -- Chapter 10: "How Human Life Began": Sexual Reproduction in Book 8 of Paradise Lost -- Afterword -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z. 330 $aWhat 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 OC chin-chuckingOCO 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. Contributors: Holly Dugan, George Washington U; Will Fisher, CUNYOCoLehman College; Stephen Guy-Bray, U of British Columbia; Melissa J. Jones, Eastern Michigan U; Thomas H. Luxon, Dartmouth College; Nicholas F. Radel, Furman U; Kathryn Schwarz, Vanderbilt U; Christine Varnado, U of BuffaloOCoSUNY. 606 $aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism$yEarly modern, 1500-1700$zEngland 606 $aSex$xHistory$yEarly modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 606 $aSex in literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aIntimacy (Psychology) in literature 606 $aEnglish drama 606 $aBehavior 606 $aLiterature 606 $aHistory, Modern 1601- 606 $aHistory, Early Modern 1451-1600 606 $aBehavior and Behavior Mechanisms 606 $aHumanities 606 $aHistory 606 $aHistory, 16th Century 606 $aSexual Behavior 606 $aHistory, 17th Century 606 $aLiterature, Modern 606 $aEnglish$2HILCC 606 $aLanguages & Literatures$2HILCC 606 $aEnglish Literature$2HILCC 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aSex$xHistory 615 0$aSex in literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aIntimacy (Psychology) in literature. 615 0$aEnglish drama. 615 2$aBehavior. 615 2$aLiterature. 615 2$aHistory, Modern 1601- 615 2$aHistory, Early Modern 1451-1600. 615 2$aBehavior and Behavior Mechanisms. 615 2$aHumanities. 615 2$aHistory. 615 2$aHistory, 16th Century. 615 2$aSexual Behavior. 615 2$aHistory, 17th Century. 615 2$aLiterature, Modern. 615 7$aEnglish 615 7$aLanguages & Literatures 615 7$aEnglish Literature 676 $a820.9/353809031 700 $aBromley$b James M$01871434 702 $aStockton$b Will 702 $aStockton$b Will 702 $aBromley$b James M 702 $aBromley$b James M 801 0$bPQKB 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910956927003321 996 $aSex Before Sex : Figuring the Act in Early Modern England$94480266 997 $aUNINA 999 $p$43.31$u06/22/2018$5Eng