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Author : James Turner
Release : 2002
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 791/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Libertines and Radicals in Early Modern London by : James Turner
Download or read book Libertines and Radicals in Early Modern London written by James Turner. This book was released on 2002. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyses English sexual culture between the Civil Wars and the death of Charles II.
Author : Cesare Cuttica
Release : 2019-07-18
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 62X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Democracy and Anti-Democracy in Early Modern England 1603–1689 by : Cesare Cuttica
Download or read book Democracy and Anti-Democracy in Early Modern England 1603–1689 written by Cesare Cuttica. This book was released on 2019-07-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a new and cross-disciplinary approach to the study of democratic ideas and practices in early modern England.
Author : Ari Friedlander
Release : 2023-01-17
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 950/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Rogue Sexuality in Early Modern English Literature by : Ari Friedlander
Download or read book Rogue Sexuality in Early Modern English Literature written by Ari Friedlander. This book was released on 2023-01-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "rogue," a term that described criminals, prostitutes, vagrants, beggars, and the unemployed, dominated the pages of early modern popular crime literature. Rogue Sexuality resituates the rogue by focusing on how their menace—and their seductive appeal—emerged not only from their social marginality, but also from their supposedly excessive sexuality and prodigious sexual reproduction. Through discussions of both familiar and little-studied early modern works by William Shakespeare, John Milton, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, Thomas Dekker, Robert Greene, Thomas Harman, and the inventor of modern demography John Graunt, this volume posits the sexualized rogue as the avatar of a new category of "socio-sexual identity" and traces a surprising social transposition, in which socio-political elites are portrayed as appropriating the rogue's sexual vitality and performative charisma to navigate moments of crisis. By tracking the movement of rogue sexuality from a criminal to a normative discursive register, this book challenges the distinctions that literary critics and historians tend to draw between orderly and disorderly sexuality. With its focus on reproduction, rogue sexuality also provides a new framework for what Michel Foucault called "biopolitics," the state's focus on exercising power over life. In legal, administrative, and scientific documents, this book shows that early modern writers grappled with popular pamphlets' rendering of the alleged threat of rogue reproduction. Rogue Sexuality thus offers a new approach to the political history of early modern England as a population—as a people whose aggregate sexual life and reproduction were a key part of its political imagination.
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Release : 2016-08-29
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 407/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis "And Never Know the Joy" by :
Download or read book "And Never Know the Joy" written by . This book was released on 2016-08-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “And Never Know the Joy” : Sex and the Erotic in English Poetry promises the reader much to enjoy and to reflect on: riddles and sex games; the grammar of relationships; the cunning psychology of bodily fantasies; sexuality as the ambiguous performance of words; the allure of music and its instruments; the erotics of death and remembrance, are just a few of the initial themes that emerge from the twenty-five articles to be found in this volume, with many an invitation “to seize the day”. Reproduction, pregnancy, and fear; discredited and degraded libertines; the ventriloquism of sexual objects; the ease with which men are reduced to impotence by the carnality of women; orgasm and melancholy; erotic mysticism and religious sexuality; the potency and dangers of fruit and flowers; the delights of the recumbent male body and of dancing girls; the fertile ritual use of poetic texts; striptease and revolution; silent women reclaimed as active vessels, are amongst the many engaging topics that emerge out of the ongoing and entertaining scholarly discussion of sex and eroticism in English poetry.
Author : Sarah Toulalan
Release : 2007-09-06
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 146/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Imagining Sex by : Sarah Toulalan
Download or read book Imagining Sex written by Sarah Toulalan. This book was released on 2007-09-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Imagining Sex' examines a variety of material from 17th century England to argue that, unlike today, pornography was not a discrete genre, nor was it usually subject to suppression. The book explores contemporary thinking on these issues and wider cultural concerns.
