Queering the Renaissance

Published by Duke University Press 1994

Queering the Renaissance

Edited by: Jonathan Goldberg , Michèle Aina Barale , Michael Moon and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

In the series Series Q

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822382607

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About this book

Queering the Renaissance offers a major reassessment of the field of Renaissance studies. Gathering essays by sixteen critics working within the perspective of gay and lesbian studies, this collection redraws the map of sexuality and gender studies in the Renaissance. Taken together, these essays move beyond limiting notions of identity politics by locating historically forms of same-sex desire that are not organized in terms of modern definitions of homosexual and heterosexual.
The presence of contemporary history can be felt throughout the volume, beginning with an investigation of the uses of Renaissance precedents in the 1986 U.S. Supreme Court decision Bowers v. Hardwick, to a piece on the foundations of 'our' national imaginary, and an afterword that addresses how identity politics has shaped the work of early modern historians. The volume examines canonical and noncanonical texts, including highly coded poems of the fifteenth-century Italian poet Burchiello, a tale from Marguerite de Navarre's Heptameron, and Erasmus's letters to a young male acolyte. English texts provide a central focus, including works by Spenser, Shakespeare, Bacon, Donne, Beaumont and Fletcher, Crashaw, and Dryden. Broad suveys of the complex terrains of friendship and sodomy are explored in one essay, while another offers a cross-cultural reading of the discursive sites of lesbian desire.

Contributors. Alan Bray, Marcie Frank, Carla Freccero, Jonathan Goldberg, Janet Halley, Graham Hammill, Margaret Hunt, Donald N. Mager, Jeff Masten, Elizabeth Pittenger, Richard Rambuss, Alan K. Smith, Dorothy Stephens, Forrest Tyler Stevens, Valerie Traub, Michael Warner

Author / Editor information

Jonathan Goldberg is the Sir William Osler Professor of English Literature at the Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Sodometries: Renaissance Texts, Modern Sexualities.

Reviews

"An outstanding collection . . . Not only does it contribute importantly to emerging areas of gay/lesbian studies and the history of sexuality by historicizing what has been for the most part a relentlessly presentist field; it makes significant scholarly contributions to traditional fields in Renaissance studies."—Karen Newman, Brown University

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Introduction Jonathan Goldberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
BOWERS V. HARDWICK in the Renaissance Janet E. Halley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
Homosexuality and the Signs of Male Friendship in Elizabethan England Alan Bray Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	40
The (In ) Significance of "Lesbian" Desire in Early Modern England Valerie Traub Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	62
Fraudomy.· Reading Sexuality and Politics in Burchiello Alan K. Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	84
Practicing queer philology with Marguerite de Navarre: nationalism and the castigation of desire Carla Freccero Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
Erasmus's Tigress : the language of Friendship, pleasure and the renaissance letter Forrest Tyler Stevens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	124
John Bale and Early Tudor sodomy discourse Donald N. Mager Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
"To serve the Queere": Nicholas Udall, master of revels Elizabeth Pittenger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	162
Into other arms: Amoret's evasion Dorothy Stephens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	190
Romeo and Juliet's Open Rs Jonathan Goldberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	218
The epistemology of expurgation: bacon and the masculine birth of time Graham Hammill Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	236
Pleasure and devotion: the body of Jesus and seventeenth-century religious lyric Richard Rambuss Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
My two dads: collaboration and the reproduction of Beaumont and Fletcher Jeff Masten Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	280
Fighting women and loving men: Dryden's representation of Shakespeare in all for love Marcie Frank Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	310
New English Sodom Michael Warner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	330
Afterword Margaret Hunt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	359
Notes on contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	379
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	383

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 398

eBook

Published: December 13, 1993
ISBN: 9780822382607