Before Pornography explores the relationship between erotic writing, masculinity, and national identity in Renaissance England. Drawing on both manuscripts and printed texts, and incorporating insights from modern feminist theory and queer studies, the book argues that pornography is a historical phenomenon: while the representation of sexual activity exists in nearly all cultures, pornography does not. The book includes analyses of the social significance of eroticism in such canonical texts as Sidney's Defense of Poesy and Spenser's Faerie Queene.
Before Pornography explores the relationship between erotic writing, masculinity, and national identity in Renaissance England. Drawing on bo...
Before Pornography explores the relationship between erotic writing, masculinity, and national identity in Renaissance England. Drawing on both manuscripts and printed texts, and incorporating insights from modern feminist theory and queer studies, the book argues that pornography is a historical phenomenon: while the representation of sexual activity exists in nearly all cultures, pornography does not. The book includes analyses of the social significance of eroticism in such canonical texts as Sidney's Defense of Poesy and Spenser's Faerie Queene.
Before Pornography explores the relationship between erotic writing, masculinity, and national identity in Renaissance England. Drawing on bo...
La Cazzaria is an outspoken erotic text of the Italian Renaissance - a ribald dialogue about politics, sex and desire written in 1525 by Antonio Vignali, a young Italian nobleman from Siena. Composed as a dialogue, it is organized as a series of 52 questions on subjects ranging from anatomy to psychology, linguistics and psychology. Outrageous and iconoclastic, La Cazzaria was a risque and provocative text in its day, and remains so today. This English translation is extensively annotated and the volume includes a detailed and accessible introduction.
La Cazzaria is an outspoken erotic text of the Italian Renaissance - a ribald dialogue about politics, sex and desire written in 1525 by Antonio Vigna...
Love in Print in the Sixteenth Century explores the impact of print on conflicting cultural notions about romantic love in the sixteenth century. This popularization of romantic love led to profound transformations in the rhetoric, ideology, and social function of love - transformations that continue to shape cultural notions about love today.
Love in Print in the Sixteenth Century explores the impact of print on conflicting cultural notions about romantic love in the sixteenth century. This...
Love in Print in the Sixteenth Century explores the impact of print on conflicting cultural notions about romantic love in the sixteenth century. This popularization of romantic love led to profound transformations in the rhetoric, ideology, and social function of love - transformations that continue to shape cultural notions about love today.
Love in Print in the Sixteenth Century explores the impact of print on conflicting cultural notions about romantic love in the sixteenth century. This...
