Erotic subjects :
Sanchez, Melissa E.
Erotic subjects : the sexuality of politics in early modern English literature Melissa E. Sanchez. - New York : Oxford University Press, 2011 - xi, 283 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Erotic subjects in English history -- "She therein ruling": hagiographic politics in the Countess of Pembroke's arcadia -- "Who can loue the worker of her smart?": tyrannous seduction in The faerie queene -- "Accessory yieldings": consent without agency in The rape of Lucrece and Pericles -- "Love, thou dost master me": political masochism in Mary Wroth's Urania -- "It is consent that makes a perfect slave": love and liberty in the Caroline Masque -- "Honest Margaret Newcastle": law and desire in Margaret Cavendish's romances -- "My self/before me": the erotics of republicanism in Paradise lost -- "Lives there who loves his pain?".
9780199754755 (cloth : acidfree paper) 0199754756 (cloth : acidfree paper)
2010029641
English literature--History and criticism.--Early modern, 1500-1700
Politics and literature.
Sex (Psychology)
Literature and society--History--England--16th century.
Literature and society--History--England--17th century.
PR428.P6 / S36 2011
820.93581 SAN/Ero
Erotic subjects : the sexuality of politics in early modern English literature Melissa E. Sanchez. - New York : Oxford University Press, 2011 - xi, 283 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Erotic subjects in English history -- "She therein ruling": hagiographic politics in the Countess of Pembroke's arcadia -- "Who can loue the worker of her smart?": tyrannous seduction in The faerie queene -- "Accessory yieldings": consent without agency in The rape of Lucrece and Pericles -- "Love, thou dost master me": political masochism in Mary Wroth's Urania -- "It is consent that makes a perfect slave": love and liberty in the Caroline Masque -- "Honest Margaret Newcastle": law and desire in Margaret Cavendish's romances -- "My self/before me": the erotics of republicanism in Paradise lost -- "Lives there who loves his pain?".
9780199754755 (cloth : acidfree paper) 0199754756 (cloth : acidfree paper)
2010029641
English literature--History and criticism.--Early modern, 1500-1700
Politics and literature.
Sex (Psychology)
Literature and society--History--England--16th century.
Literature and society--History--England--17th century.
PR428.P6 / S36 2011
820.93581 SAN/Ero