Erotic subjects : the sexuality of politics in early modern English literature

Erotic subjects : the sexuality of politics in early modern English literature / Melissa E. Sanchez.

"Sympathetic and imaginative, this elegantly written book illuminates the interrelation of eros and politics in ways that are refreshingly honest about the risky but real pleasure of submission to power. Sanchez traces the implications of such pleasure for Renaissance texts by both men and wome...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sanchez, Melissa E.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, c2011.
Subjects:
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Politics and literature.
Sex (Psychology)
Literature and society > England > History > 16th century.
Literature and society > England > History > 17th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Erotic subjects in English history
  • "She therein ruling": hagiographic politics in the Countess of Pembroke's arcadia
  • "Who can loue the worker of her smart?": tyrannous seduction in The faerie queene
  • "Accessory yieldings": consent without agency in The rape of Lucrece and Pericles
  • "Love, thou dost master me": political masochism in Mary Wroth's Urania
  • "It is consent that makes a perfect slave": love and liberty in the Caroline Masque
  • "Honest Margaret Newcastle": law and desire in Margaret Cavendish's romances
  • "My self/before me": the erotics of republicanism in Paradise lost
  • "Lives there who loves his pain?".

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