Sexual Types: Embodiment, Agency, and Dramatic Character from Shakespeare to Shirley

Mario DiGangi

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2012

Sexual Types

Embodiment, Agency, and Dramatic Character from Shakespeare to Shirley

Mario DiGangi

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812205152

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About this book

Sexual Types focuses on six figures from the early modern stage—the sodomite, the tribade, the narcissistic courtier, the citizen wife, the bawd, and the court favorite—that reveal in particularly compelling ways, how sexual transgressions were understood to intersect with social, gender, economic, and political transgressions.

Author / Editor information

Mario DiGangi is Professor of English at Lehman College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is the author of The Homoerotics of Early Modern Drama.

Reviews

"DiGangi is the early modern literary critic perhaps best equipped to deal with the intersections among sexuality, gender, and status hierarchies, and Sexual Types has important things to say about how such relations function in drama from the late sixteenth century through the Caroline period. A significant contribution to both early modern drama studies and sexuality studies."—Valerie Traub, University of Michigan

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Illustrations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Introduction: Deformation of Character Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part 1. Sexual Types and Necessary Classifications
Chapter 1. Keeping Company The Sodomite’s Familiar Vices Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
Chapter 2. Fulfilling Venus Substitutive Logics and the Tribade’s Agency Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	60
Part 2. Sexual Types and Social Discriminations
Chapter 3. Mincing Manners The Narcissistic Courtier and the (De)Formation of Civility Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
Chapter 4. Calling Whore The Citizen Wife and the Erotics of Open Work Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	122
Part 3. Sexual Types and Intermediary Functions
Chapter 5. Making Common Familiar Knowledge and the Bawd’s Seduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
Chapter 6. Making Monsters The Caroline Favorite and the Erotics of Royal Will Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	192
Epilogue Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	226
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	260
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	295

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Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 304
Illustrations
- Other: 30 illus.
Keywords: LC; Women's Studies; Gender Studies; Medieval and Renaissance Studies; Literature; Cultural Studies; Gender Studies

eBook

Published: November 29, 2011
ISBN: 9780812205152