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Post-closet Masculinities in Early Modern England

Andrew William Barnes

Author : Andrew William Barnes
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0838757189

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Post-closet Masculinities in Early Modern England by Andrew William Barnes Pdf

"Post-Closet Masculinities in Early Modern England argues for a theory of male subjectivity that subordinates questions of desire beneath the historical imperatives that inform those desires. Employing a post-closet identity theory, this book argues that writers like John Donne, William Shakespeare, and George Herbert created an ideology of masculinity in conjunction with and in response to the great epistemological upheavals in early modern England. Donne, Shakespeare, and Herbert helped to create a masculinity that embodies an ironic subject position that is constantly shifting between men's desires for women and men's simultaneous rejection of women's bodies, and the inevitable encounter with the figure of the sodomite that their rejection invites."--BOOK JACKET.

Representing Masculinity in Early Modern English Satire, 1590–1603

Per Sivefors

Author : Per Sivefors
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000047899

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Representing Masculinity in Early Modern English Satire, 1590–1603 by Per Sivefors Pdf

Engaging with Elizabethan understandings of masculinity, this book examines representations of manhood during the short-lived vogue for verse satire in the 1590s, by poets like John Donne, John Marston, Everard Guilpin and Joseph Hall. While criticism has often used categorical adjectives like "angry" and "Juvenalian" to describe these satires, this book argues that they engage with early modern ideas of manhood in a conflicted and contradictory way that is frequently at odds with patriarchal norms even when they seem to defend them. The book examines the satires from a series of contexts of masculinity such as husbandry and early modern understandings of age, self-control and violence, and suggests that the images of manhood represented in the satires often exist in tension with early modern standards of manhood. Beyond the specific case studies, while satire has often been assumed to be a "male" genre or mode, this is the first study to engage more in depth with the question of how satire is invested with ideas and practices of masculinity.

Portraits in Early Modern English Drama

Emanuel Stelzer

Author : Emanuel Stelzer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780429791727

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Portraits in Early Modern English Drama by Emanuel Stelzer Pdf

Portraits in Early Modern English Drama studies the complex web of interconnections that grows out of the presentation of portraits as props in early modern English drama. Emanuel Stelzer considers this theory from the Elizabethan age up to the closing of the theatres. This book examines how the dramatic text and the subjectivities of the dramatis personae are shaped and changed through the process of observation and interpretation of pictures in the dramatic actions and dialogues. Unlike any previous study, it confronts when a portrait is clearly meant not to be a miniature. This also has bearings on the effect of the picture on the audience and in terms of genre expectation. Two important questions are interrogated in the book: What were the price and value of these portraits? and What were the strategies deployed by the playing companies to show women’s portraits in a theatre without actresses? This book will be of interest to different areas of research dealing with the history of drama and literature, material and visual culture studies, art history, gender studies, and performance studies.

Beholding Violence in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Allie Terry-Fritsch

Author : Allie Terry-Fritsch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351574242

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Beholding Violence in Medieval and Early Modern Europe by Allie Terry-Fritsch Pdf

Interested in the ways in which medieval and early modern communities have acted as participants, observers, and interpreters of events and how they ascribed meaning to them, the essays in this interdisciplinary collection explore the concept of beholding and the experiences of individual and collective beholders of violence during the period. Addressing a range of medieval and early modern art forms, including visual images, material objects, literary texts, and performances, the contributors examine the complexities of viewing and the production of knowledge within cultural, political, and theological contexts. In considering new methods to examine the process of beholding violence and the beholder's perspective, this volume addresses such questions as: How does the process of beholding function in different aesthetic conditions? Can we speak of such a thing as the 'period eye' or an acculturated gaze of the viewer? If so, does this particularize the gaze, or does it risk universalizing perception? How do violence and pleasure intersect within the visual and literary arts? How can an understanding of violence in cultural representation serve as means of knowing the past and as means of understanding and potentially altering the present?

Queering Childhood in Early Modern English Drama and Culture

Jennifer Higginbotham,Mark Albert Johnston

Author : Jennifer Higginbotham,Mark Albert Johnston
Publisher : Springer
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319727691

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Queering Childhood in Early Modern English Drama and Culture by Jennifer Higginbotham,Mark Albert Johnston Pdf

This volume analyzes early modern cultural representations of children and childhood through the literature and drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Contributors include leading international scholars of the English Renaissance whose essays consider asexuals and sodomites, roaring girls and schoolboys, precocious princes and raucous tomboys, boy actors and female apprentices, while discussing a broad array of topics, from animal studies to performance theory, from queer time to queer fat, from teaching strategies to casting choices, and from metamorphic sex changes to rape and cannibalism. The collection interrogates the cultural and historical contingencies of childhood in an effort to expose, theorize, historicize, and explicate the spectacular queerness of early modern dramatic depictions of children.

The Queerness of Water

Jeremy Chow

Author : Jeremy Chow
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813949529

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The Queerness of Water by Jeremy Chow Pdf

This highly original book reconsiders canonical long eighteenth-century narratives through the conjoined lenses of queer studies and the environmental humanities. Moving from Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe and Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels to Gothic novels including Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Jeremy Chow investigates the role that bodies of water play in reading these central texts. Chow navigates various representations and phases of water to magnify the element’s furtive yet pronounced effects on narrative, theory, and identity. Water, Chow reveals, is both a participant and a stage upon which bodily violation manifests. The sea, rivers, pools, streams, and glaciers all participate in a violent decolonialism that fractures, revises, and reshapes notions of colonial masculinity emerging throughout the long eighteenth century. Through an innovative series of intermezzi, The Queerness of Water also traces the afterlives of eighteenth-century literature in late twentienth- and twenty-first-century film, television, and other popular media, opening up conversations regarding canon, literary criticism, pedagogy, and climate change.

Gender, Culture and Politics in England, 1560-1640

Susan D. Amussen,David E. Underdown

Author : Susan D. Amussen,David E. Underdown
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350020689

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Gender, Culture and Politics in England, 1560-1640 by Susan D. Amussen,David E. Underdown Pdf

Gender, Culture and Politics in England, 1560-1640 integrates social history, politics and literary culture as part of a ground-breaking study that provides revealing insights into early modern English society. Susan D. Amussen and David E. Underdown examine political scandals and familiar characters-including scolds, cuckolds and witches-to show how their behaviour turned the ordered world around them upside down in very specific, gendered ways. Using case studies from theatre, civic ritual and witchcraft, the book demonstrates how ideas of gendered inversion, failed patriarchs, and disorderly women permeate the mental world of early modern England. Amussen and Underdown show both how these ideas were central to understanding society and politics as well as the ways in which both women and men were disciplined formally and informally for inverting the gender order. In doing so, they give a glimpse of how we can connect different dimensions of early modern society. This is a vital study for anyone interested in understanding the connections between social practice, culture, and politics in 16th- and 17th-century England.

Performing Pedagogy in Early Modern England

Dr Kathryn M Moncrief,Dr Kathryn R McPherson

Author : Dr Kathryn M Moncrief,Dr Kathryn R McPherson
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781409478966

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Performing Pedagogy in Early Modern England by Dr Kathryn M Moncrief,Dr Kathryn R McPherson Pdf

Performing Pedagogy in Early Modern England: Gender, Instruction, and Performance features essays questioning the extent to which education, an activity pursued in the home, classroom, and the church, led to, mirrored, and was perhaps even transformed by moments of instruction on stage. This volume argues that along with the popular press, the early modern stage is also a key pedagogical site and that education—performed and performative—plays a central role in gender construction. The wealth of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century printed and manuscript documents devoted to education (parenting guides, conduct books, domestic manuals, catechisms, diaries, and autobiographical writings) encourages examination of how education contributed to the formation of gendered and hierarchical structures, as well as the production, reproduction, and performance of masculinity and femininity. In examining both dramatic and non-dramatic texts via aspects of performance theory, this collection explores the ways education instilled formal academic knowledge, but also elucidates how educational practices disciplined students as members of their social realm, citizens of a nation, and representatives of their gender.

Members of His Body

Will Stockton

Author : Will Stockton
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780823275526

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Members of His Body by Will Stockton Pdf

Building on scholarship regarding both biblical and early modern sexualities, Members of His Body protests the Christian defense of marital monogamy. According to the Paul who authors 1 Corinthians, believers would do well to remain single and focus instead on the messiah’s return. According to the Paul who authors Ephesians, plural marriage is the telos of Christian community. Turning to Shakespeare, Will Stockton shows how marriage functions in The Comedy of Errors, The Merchant of Venice, Othello, and The Winter’s Tale as a contested vehicle of Christian embodiment. Juxtaposing the marital theologies of the different Pauls and their later interpreters, Stockton reveals how these plays explore the racial, religious, and gender criteria for marital membership in the body of Christ. These plays further suggest that marital jealousy and paranoia about adultery result in part from a Christian theology of shared embodiment: the communion of believers in Christ. In the wake of recent arguments that expanding marriage rights to gay people will open the door to the cultural acceptance and legalization of plural marriage, Members of His Body reminds us that much Christian theology already looks forward to this end.

The Radical Ecology of the Shelleys

Colin Carman

Author : Colin Carman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429664663

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The Radical Ecology of the Shelleys by Colin Carman Pdf

The Radical Ecology of the Shelleys: Eros and Environment is the first full-length study to explore a radically queer ecology at work in writings by Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley as their discussions of nature and the natural consistently link ecology and erotic practice. Initiated by Timothy Morton in 2010 as a hybrid of two schools of thinking about nature, queer ecology combines the alertness of environmentalists to constructions of the "natural" with efforts of sexuality scholars to denaturalize identity and to expose sexuality as a culture-bound construct. Conceptions of place are central to this investigation not only because an attachment to place is traditionally thought to be the ontological basis of all environmental consciousness (e.g. think-globally-act-locally) but because these two Romantic writers underscore the dynamic interaction between a person’s natural surroundings and his/her interpersonal attachments. The poetical and prose writings of the Shelleys claim our special attention because of their unusual conception of the oikos, the etymological root of "ecology," to mean both local grounds and the social, often domestic, places in which people dwell and desire. The overarching thesis of this book asserts that proto-ecological theories in Romantic-era England cannot be understood separately from discourses related to married/family life, and the texts considered demonstrate the comingling of earthly and erotic enjoyment. The issues raised by Eros and Environment are fundamental not only to literary and queer history but to all humanistic studies. They render the study of nature from a queer perspective a matter of intense interest to scholars in numerous disciplines ranging from ecocriticism and the natural sciences, including climate studies, to feminist criticism and sexuality studies.

Andrew Marvell, Sexual Orientation, and Seventeenth-Century Poetry

George Klawitter

Author : George Klawitter
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781683931041

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Andrew Marvell, Sexual Orientation, and Seventeenth-Century Poetry by George Klawitter Pdf

Andrew Marvell, Sexual Orientation, and Seventeenth-Century Poetry examines the important Interregnum/Restoration poet Andrew Marvell against a background of his contemporary lyric poets. His major works from the early elegies to the later political pieces are discussed with a view to unmasking the poet’s own sexuality and his reflection of prevailing sexual attitudes. Popular poems like the Mower poems and “The Nymph Complaining for the Death of her Fawn” are explicated in depth as well as lesser known poems like “The Unfortunate Lover” and “The Gallery.” Marvell, often described as a “chameleon” has teased readers for hundreds of years. This new book will help both new readers as well as established Marvellians to understand cryptic sexual meanings and references in the verses. Poems are explicated against current heteronormative theory as well as recent work on homoeroticism, autoeroticism, and celibacy. George Klawitter has devoted much of his recent scholarly life to a study of Marvell’s lyric pieces and brings to this new book fresh insights into the suggestive intent of the poet’s works.

Form and Foreskin

A. W. Strouse

Author : A. W. Strouse
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780823294770

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Form and Foreskin by A. W. Strouse Pdf

Why did Saint Augustine ask God to “circumcise [his] lips”? Why does Sir Gawain cut off the Green Knight’s head on the Feast of the Circumcision? Is Chaucer’s Wife of Bath actually—as an early glossator figures her—a foreskin? And why did Ezra Pound claim that he had incubated The Waste Land inside of his uncut member? In this little book, A. W. Strouse excavates a poetics of the foreskin, uncovering how Patristic theologies of circumcision came to structure medieval European literary aesthetics. Following the writings of Saint Paul, “circumcision” and “uncircumcision” become key terms for theorizing language—especially the dichotomies between the mere text and its extended exegesis, between brevity and longwindedness, between wisdom and folly. Form and Foreskin looks to three works: a peculiar story by Saint Augustine about a boy with the long foreskin; Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; and Chaucer’s Wife of Bath’s Tale. By examining literary scenes of cutting and stretching, Strouse exposes how Patristic treatments of circumcision queerly govern medieval poetics.

Form & Foreskin

A W Strouse

Author : A W Strouse
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780823294763

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Form & Foreskin by A W Strouse Pdf

Why did Saint Augustine ask God to “circumcise [his] lips”? Why does Sir Gawain cut off the Green Knight’s head on the Feast of the Circumcision? Is Chaucer’s Wife of Bath actually—as an early glossator figures her—a foreskin? And why did Ezra Pound claim that he had incubated The Waste Land inside of his uncut member? In this little book, A. W. Strouse excavates a poetics of the foreskin, uncovering how Patristic theologies of circumcision came to structure medieval European literary aesthetics. Following the writings of Saint Paul, “circumcision” and “uncircumcision” become key terms for theorizing language—especially the dichotomies between the mere text and its extended exegesis, between brevity and longwindedness, between wisdom and folly. Form and Foreskin looks to three works: a peculiar story by Saint Augustine about a boy with the long foreskin; Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; and Chaucer’s Wife of Bath’s Tale. By examining literary scenes of cutting and stretching, Strouse exposes how Patristic treatments of circumcision queerly govern medieval poetics.

The Dark Eclipse

A.W. Barnes

Author : A.W. Barnes
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781684480425

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The Dark Eclipse by A.W. Barnes Pdf

The Dark Eclipse is a book of personal essays in which author A.W. Barnes seeks to come to terms with the suicide of his older brother, Mike. Using source documentation—police report, autopsy, suicide note, and death certificate—the essays explore Barnes’ relationship with Mike and their status as gay brothers raised in a large conservative family in the Midwest. In addition, the narrative traces the brothers’ difficult relationship with their father, a man who once studied to be a Trappist monk before marrying and fathering eight children. Because of their shared sexual orientation, Andrew hoped he and Mike would be close, but their relationship was as fraught as the author’s relationship with his other brothers and father. While the rest of the family seems to have forgotten about Mike, who died in 1993, Barnes has not been able to let him go. This book is his attempt to do so. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

Performing Pedagogy in Early Modern England

Kathryn M. Moncrief

Author : Kathryn M. Moncrief
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317082330

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Performing Pedagogy in Early Modern England by Kathryn M. Moncrief Pdf

Performing Pedagogy in Early Modern England: Gender, Instruction, and Performance features essays questioning the extent to which education, an activity pursued in the home, classroom, and the church, led to, mirrored, and was perhaps even transformed by moments of instruction on stage. This volume argues that along with the popular press, the early modern stage is also a key pedagogical site and that education”performed and performative”plays a central role in gender construction. The wealth of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century printed and manuscript documents devoted to education (parenting guides, conduct books, domestic manuals, catechisms, diaries, and autobiographical writings) encourages examination of how education contributed to the formation of gendered and hierarchical structures, as well as the production, reproduction, and performance of masculinity and femininity. In examining both dramatic and non-dramatic texts via aspects of performance theory, this collection explores the ways education instilled formal academic knowledge, but also elucidates how educational practices disciplined students as members of their social realm, citizens of a nation, and representatives of their gender.

Post Closet Masculinities In Early Modern England

Post-closet Masculinities in Early Modern England by Andrew William Barnes Pdf

Representing Masculinity in Early Modern English Satire, 1590–1603 by Per Sivefors Pdf

Portraits in Early Modern English Drama by Emanuel Stelzer Pdf

Beholding Violence in Medieval and Early Modern Europe by Allie Terry-Fritsch Pdf

Queering Childhood in Early Modern English Drama and Culture by Jennifer Higginbotham,Mark Albert Johnston Pdf

The Queerness of Water by Jeremy Chow Pdf

Gender, Culture and Politics in England, 1560-1640 by Susan D. Amussen,David E. Underdown Pdf

Performing Pedagogy in Early Modern England by Dr Kathryn M Moncrief,Dr Kathryn R McPherson Pdf

Members of His Body by Will Stockton Pdf

The Radical Ecology of the Shelleys by Colin Carman Pdf

Andrew Marvell, Sexual Orientation, and Seventeenth-Century Poetry by George Klawitter Pdf

Form and Foreskin by A. W. Strouse Pdf

Form & Foreskin by A W Strouse Pdf

The Dark Eclipse by A.W. Barnes Pdf

Performing Pedagogy in Early Modern England by Kathryn M. Moncrief Pdf

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