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Before Pornography: Erotic Writing in Early Modern England

Before Pornography: Erotic Writing in Early Modern England

Moulton, Ian Frederick

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Series: Studies in the History of Sexuality

Literary CriticismGeneral SociologyBritish History

ISBN10: 019517982X
ISBN13: 9780195179828
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Mar 24 2005
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.64 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

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