Sodometries: Renaissance Texts, Modern Sexualities

Jonathan Goldberg

ISBN 10: 0804720517 / ISBN 13: 9780804720519

Published by Stanford University Press, 1992

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xvi, 295 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm Contents: Introduction: "That utterly confused category" -- pt. 1: "Wee/men" : gender and sexuality in the formations of Elizabethan high literariness. The making of courtly makers ; Spenser's familiar letters -- pt. 2: "Play the sodomits [sic], or worse" : the Elizabethan theater. The transvestite stage : more on the case of Christopher Marlowe ; Desiring Hal -- pt. 3: "They are all sodomites" : the New World. Discovering America ; Bradford's "ancient members" and "a case of buggery . amongst them" ; Tailpiece : from William Bradford to William Buckley.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sodometries: Renaissance Texts, Modern Sexualities
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0804720517
• ISBN 13: 9780804720519
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature
  • European History

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"At the very cutting edge of its field, an indispensable guide to the sexuality of the world that preceded our own"--Alan J. M. Bray
"Sodometries is a stunning book: the complexity of its intelligence and the beauty of its stylistic accomplishments take one's breath away."--Journal of the History of Sexuality