Premodern Sexualities

by Louise Fradenburg (Editor), Carla Freccero (Editor)

Overview

Premodern Sexualities offers rigorous new approaches to current problems in the historiography of sexuality. From queer readings of early modern medical texts to transcribing and interrogating premodern documents of sexual transgression, the contributors bring together current theoretical discourses on sexuality while emphasizing problems in the historicist interpretation of early textualizations of sexuality. Premodern Sexualities clarifies the contributions literary studies can make—through its emphasis on reading strategies—to the historiography of sexuality.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415912587
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/05/1996
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	300
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Louise Fradenburg, Carla Freccero

Table of Contents

1: The Erotics of Conquest; 1: The History that Will Be; 2: In Search of the Black Stud; 3: The Queen's Too Bawdies; 4: Henry's Desires; 2: Medicine and Law; 5: “Ut cum muliere”; 6: The Hermaphrodite and the Orders of Nature; 7: Don't Ask, Don't Tell; 3: Sexuality and Sanctity; 8: Straight Minds/“Queer” Wishes in Old French Hagiography; 9: Sobs and Sighs Between Women; 4: Rhetoric and Poetics; 10: Virile Style; 11: Explicit Ink; 12: Sodomy and Resurrection