Ebook: Before pornography : erotic writing in early modern England
Author: Moulton Ian Frederick
- Tags: English literature -- Early modern 1500-1700 -- History and criticism. Sex in literature. Erotic literature English -- History and criticism. Sex customs -- England -- History -- 16th century. Sex customs -- England -- History -- 17th century. Sex customs in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English Irish Scottish Welsh. Engels.
- Series: Studies in the history of sexuality
- Year: 2000
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- City: New York, Oxford England, England
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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Before Pornography explores the relationship between erotic writing, masculinity, and national identity in Renaissance England. Drawing on both manuscripts and printed texts, and incorporating insights from modern feminist theory and queer studies, the book argues that pornography is a historical phenomenon: while the representation of sexual activity exists in nearly all cultures, pornography does not. The book includes analyses of the social significance of eroticism in such canonical texts as Sidney's Defense of Poesy and Spenser's Faerie Queene
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