Before Intimacy Asocial Sexuality in Early Modern England 1st Edition by Daniel Juan Gil ISBN 0816646333 978-0816646333

Before Intimacy Asocial Sexuality in Early Modern England 1st Edition by Daniel Juan Gil – Ebook PDF Instant Download/Delivery:0816646333 ,978-0816646333
Full download Before Intimacy Asocial Sexuality in Early Modern England 1st Edition after payment

Product details: 

ISBN 10:0816646333

ISBN 13:978-0816646333

Author:Daniel Juan Gil

Before the eighteenth-century rise of the ideology of intimacy, sexuality was defined not by social affiliations but by bodies. In Before Intimacy, Daniel Juan Gil examines sixteenth-century English literary concepts of sexuality that frame erotic ties as neither bound by social customs nor transgressive of them, but rather as “loopholes” in people’s experiences and associations. 

Engaging the poems of Wyatt, Sidney’s Astrophil and Stella, Spenser’s Amoretti and The Faerie Queene, and Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida and the Sonnets, Gil demonstrates how sexuality was conceived as a relationship system inhabited by men and women interchangeably—set apart from the “norm” and not institutionalized in a private or domestic realm. Going beyond the sodomy-as-transgression analytic, he asserts the existence of socially inconsequential sexual bonds while recognizing the pleasurable effects of violating the supposed traditional modes of bonding and ideals of universal humanity and social hierarchy. 

Celebrating the ability of corporeal emotions to interpret connections between people who share nothing in terms of societal structure, Before Intimacy shows how these works of early modern literature provide a discourse of sexuality that strives to understand status differences in erotic contexts and thereby question key assumptions of modernity. 

Daniel Juan Gil is assistant professor of English at TCU.

Table of contents: 

CHAPTER 1
The Social Structure of Passion

CHAPTER 2
Intimacy and the Eroticism of Social Distance: Sidney’s Astrophil and Stella and Spenser’s Amoretti

CHAPTER 3
Civility and the Emotional Topography of The Faerie Queene

CHAPTER 4
At the Limits of the Social World: Fear and Pride in Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida

CHAPTER 5
Poetic Autonomy and the History of Sexuality in Shakespeare’s Sonnets

People also search for:

intimate matters a history of sexuality in america

psychology sexuality and social control in victorian england

marriage and sexuality in early christianity

how was sexuality seen in the 19th century

8 important historical events that you believe influence sexuality

 

Tags: Daniel Juan Gil, Intimacy, Asocial, Sexuality