Before Pornography : Erotic Writing in Early Modern England.

By: Moulton, Ian FrederickMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Studies in the History of Sexuality SerPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2000Copyright date: ©2000Description: 1 online resource (283 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780195350357Subject(s): English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism | Erotic literature, English -- History and criticism | Sex customs -- England -- History -- 16th century | Sex customs -- England -- History -- 17th century | Sex customs in literature | Sex in literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Before Pornography : Erotic Writing in Early Modern EnglandDDC classification: 820.9/3538/09031 LOC classification: PR428.S48M68 2000Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- A Note on Manuscript Transcriptions -- Introduction: The Prehistory of Pornography -- PART I: English Erotic Writing -- 1. Erotic Writing in Manuscript Culture -- 2. Erotic Writing, Effeminacy, and National Identity -- PART II: The Aretine and the Italianate -- Prologue Englishmen Italianated -- 3. "Courtesan Politic": The Erotic Writing and Cultural Significance of Pietro Aretino -- 4. "The English Aretine": Thomas Nashe -- 5. Ben Jonson and the Erotics of a Literary Career -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
Summary: 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 ahistorical 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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Intro -- Contents -- A Note on Manuscript Transcriptions -- Introduction: The Prehistory of Pornography -- PART I: English Erotic Writing -- 1. Erotic Writing in Manuscript Culture -- 2. Erotic Writing, Effeminacy, and National Identity -- PART II: The Aretine and the Italianate -- Prologue Englishmen Italianated -- 3. "Courtesan Politic": The Erotic Writing and Cultural Significance of Pietro Aretino -- 4. "The English Aretine": Thomas Nashe -- 5. Ben Jonson and the Erotics of a Literary Career -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

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 ahistorical 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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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