Erotic subjects : the sexuality of politics in early modern English literature

Erotic subjects : the sexuality of politics in early modern English literature / Melissa E. Sanchez.

Author/creator	Sanchez, Melissa E.
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	New York : Oxford University Press, ©2011.
Description	xi, 283 pages ; 25 cm
Subject(s)	English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700 --History and criticism. Politics and literature. Sex (Psychology) Literature and society--England --History --16th century. Literature and society--England --History --17th century.

Contents	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?".
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-271) and index.
LCCN	2010029641
ISBN	9780199754755 (cloth : acid-free paper)
ISBN	0199754756 (cloth : acid-free paper)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	PR428.P6 S36 2011	✔ Available	Place Hold