{"product_id":"sex-before-sex-figuring-the-act-in-early-modern-england-paperback-softback-9780816680771","title":"Sex Before Sex; Figuring the Act in Early Modern England (Paperback \/ softback) 9780816680771","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSex Before Sex\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eFiguring the Act in Early Modern England\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJames M. Bromley (Edited by), Will Stockton (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780816680771\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 15 February 2013\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e320 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 3.8 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat is sex exactly? Does everyone agree on a definition? And does that definition hold when considering literary production in other times and places? \u003ci\u003eSex before Sex\u003c\/i\u003e 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 the people 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing attention to overlooked forms of sexual activity in early modern culture, from anilingus and interspecies sex to “chin-chucking” and convivial drinking, \u003ci\u003eSex before Sex\u003c\/i\u003e offers a multifaceted view of what sex looked like before the term entered history. Through incisive interpretations of a wide range of literary texts, including \u003ci\u003eRomeo and Juliet, The Comedy of Errors, Paradise Lost\u003c\/i\u003e, the figure of Lucretia, and pornographic poetry, this collection queries what might constitute sex in the absence of a widely accepted definition and how a historicized concept of sex affects the kinds of arguments that can be made about early modern sexualities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributors: Holly Dugan, George Washington U; Will Fisher, CUNY–Lehman College; Stephen Guy-Bray, U of British Columbia; Melissa J. Jones, Eastern Michigan U; Thomas H. Luxon, Dartmouth College; Nicholas F. Radel, Furman U; Kathryn Schwarz, Vanderbilt U; Christine Varnado, U of Buffalo–SUNY.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Figuring Early Modern Sex\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWill Stockton and James M. Bromley\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. “Invisible Sex!”: What Looks Like the Act in Early Modern Drama?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChristine Varnado\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2. Death and Theory: Or, the Problem of Counterfactual Sex\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKathryn Schwarz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3. Spectacular Impotence: Or, Things that Hardly Ever Happen in the Critical History of Pornography\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMelissa J. Jones\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4. “Unmanly Passion”: Sodomitical Self-Fashioning in John Ford’s \u003ci\u003eThe Lover’s Melancholy\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePerkin Warbeck\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eNicholas F. Radel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5. The Erotics of Chin-chucking in Seventeenth-Century England\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWill Fisher\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e6. Rimming the Renaissance\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJames M. Bromley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e7. Animal, Vegetable, Sexual: Metaphor in John Donne’s “Sappho to Philaenis” and Andrew Marvell’s “The Garden”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStephen Guy-Bray\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e8. Aping Rape: Animal Ravishment and Sexual Knowledge in Early Modern England\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHolly Dugan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e9. The Seduction of Milton’s Lady: Rape, Psychoanalysis, and the Erotics of Consumption in “Comus”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWill Stockton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e10 “How human life began”: Sexual Reproduction in Book 8 of \u003ci\u003eParadise Lost\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eThomas H. 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