{"product_id":"playing-dirty-sexuality-and-waste-in-early-modern-comedy-paperback-softback-9780816666072","title":"Playing Dirty; Sexuality and Waste in Early Modern Comedy (Paperback \/ softback) 9780816666072","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003ePlaying Dirty\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSexuality and Waste in Early Modern Comedy\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eWill Stockton (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780816666072\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 17 March 2011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e192 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.3 cm, 0.278 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Will Stockton has his finger on the pulse of early modern studies. \u003ci\u003ePlaying Dirty\u003c\/i\u003e is timely and exploratory, drawing together a range of approaches which have often been set against each other with theoretical cogency and an unusually light touch.\" -Christopher Pye, Williams College\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003ePlaying Dirty\u003c\/i\u003e offers a highly readable, smart, and engaging intervention into the role of the history of sexuality in Renaissance studies, psychoanalysis, and in the burgeoning field of waste studies. Comedy and scatology have long been facile bedfellows, but Stockton’s analysis asserts a fresh view on the ‘trash’ of history. \u003ci\u003ePlaying Dirty \u003c\/i\u003etranslates well across many literary, cultural, and theoretical registers as it presents a unique view of what it means to be queer.\" -Erin Labbie, Bowling Green State University \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003ePlaying Dirty\u003c\/i\u003e is full of dirty jokes. Arguing that the early modern excremental body is in many ways an erotic body, Will Stockton-with humor and dry wit-reads psychoanalytic theory through early modern comedies, claiming that it is helpful, rather than inimical, to the project of historicizing the body.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eNoting that psychoanalysis has traditionally operated in a paranoid framework that relentlessly produces evidence of the same “truths,” Stockton turns to a minority practice in psychoanalysis-associated with Jean Laplanche-to develop a more “playful” analytic for literary studies. This analytic brings together different discourses of sexuality and the body and allows individual writings to reform psychoanalytic wisdom about sexuality, waste, and comedy. Through original explorations of works by William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Sir John Harington, Thomas Nashe, and Geoffrey Chaucer, Stockton further encourages the reconciliation of psychoanalysis and queer historicism. He focuses in large part on the less-often-read texts of the early modern English canon, assessing the ways in which these books have been purged from the canon in the name of generic purity. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePlaying Dirty\u003c\/i\u003e builds on recent calls by Renaissance and medieval queer scholars for a method of literary analysis that is less constrained by the boundaries of periodicity and the supposed exigencies of historicism. To take Playing Dirty seriously is to accept its invitation to “play”-to queerly disrupt the modern divide in moving promiscuously between texts past and present.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Wandering Anus: Ben Jonson, John Harington, and Humanist Homopoetics\u003cbr\u003e 2. Shakespeare's Ass: \u003ci\u003eThe Merry Wives of Windsor\u003c\/i\u003e and the Butt of the Joke\u003cbr\u003e  3. Happy Endings: Healing Sick Desires in \u003ci\u003eAll's Well That Ends Well\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4. Happy Endings II: \u003ci\u003eThe Unfortunate Traveller\u003c\/i\u003e, the \"Frenzy of the Visible,\" and the Comedy of Anti-Semitism\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Pardoner's Dirty Breeches: Cynicism and Kynicism in \u003ci\u003eThe Canterbury Tales\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52702466638104,"sku":"9780816666072","price":17.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/playing-dirty-sexuality-and-waste-in-early-modern-comedy-paperback-softback-9780816666072","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}