Sexual types : embodiment, agency, and dramatic character from Shakespeare to shirley /
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,...
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University of Pennsylvania Press,
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Publisher Address: | Philadelphia, Pa. : |
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[2011] ©2011 |
Literature type: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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http://dx.doi.org/10.9783/9780812205152 http://www.degruyter.com/doc/cover/9780812205152.jpg |
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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. |
Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (304 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliography: | 30 illus. |
ISBN: | 9780812205152 |
Index Number: | PR658 |
CLC: | I561.073 |
Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: Deformation of Character -- Chapter 1. Keeping Company -- Chapter 2. Fulfilling Venus -- Chapter 3. Mincing Manners -- Chapter 4. Calling Whore -- Chapter 5. Making Common -- Chapter 6. Making Monsters -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments. |