Before Intimacy : Asocial Sexuality in Early Modern England.
Material type: TextPublisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2006Copyright date: ©2006Description: 1 online resource (206 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780816697588Subject(s): English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism | Literature and society -- England -- History -- 16th century | Literature and society -- England -- History -- 17th century | Sex customs -- England -- History -- 16th century | Sex customs -- England -- History -- 17th century | Sex in literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Before Intimacy : Asocial Sexuality in Early Modern EnglandDDC classification: 820.9353809031 LOC classification: PR428.S48 -- G55 2006ebOnline resources: Click to ViewIntro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Social Structure of Passion -- 2. Intimacy and the Eroticism of Social Distance: Sidney's Astophil and Stella and Spenser's Amoretti -- 3. Civility and the Emotional Topography of The Faerie Queene -- 4. At the Limits of the Social World: Fear and Pride in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida -- 5. Poetic Autonomy and the History of Sexuality in Shakespeare's Sonnets -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- X.
Daniel Juan Gil examines sixteenth-century English literary concepts of sexuality that frame erotic ties as neither bound by social customs nor transgressive of them, but rather as "loopholes" in people's associations. Engaging Sidney's Astrophil and Stella, Spenser's The Faerie Queene, and Shakespeare's Sonnets, among others Gil demonstrates how sexuality was conceived as a relationship system not institutionalized in a domestic realm.
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