The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 24.0101 Tuesday, 12 March 2013
From: Dylan Hester <
Date: March 11, 2013 1:21:16 PM EDT
Subject: Sex before Sex
How do contemporary notions of sex acts distort views of sex in literature of other eras?
SEX BEFORE SEX: Figuring the Act in Early Modern England
Edited by James M. Bromley and Will Stockton
Afterword by Valerie Traub
University of Minnesota Press | 336 pages | 2013
ISBN 978-0-8166-8077-1 | paperback
ISBN 978-0-8166-8076-4 | cloth
Sex before Sex makes clear that we cannot simply transfer our contemporary notions of what constitutes a sex act into the past and expect them to be true for those who were then reading literature and watching plays. The contributors confront how our current critical assumptions about definitions of sex restrict our understanding of representations of sexuality in early modern England.
ABOUT THE EDITORS:
James M. Bromley is assistant professor of English at Miami University. He is the author of Intimacy and Sexuality in the Age of Shakespeare.
Will Stockton is associate professor of English at Clemson University. He is the author of Playing Dirty: Sexuality and Waste in Early Modern Comedy (Minnesota, 2011).
Valerie Traub is the Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of English and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan.
For more information, including the table of contents, visit the book’s webpage:
http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/sex-before-sex
Please email me if you have any questions.
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