Before Intimacy Asocial Sexuality in Early Modern England |
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Author:
| Gil, Daniel Juan |
ISBN: | 978-0-8166-4632-6 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2006 |
Publisher: | University of Minnesota Press
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $66.00 |
Book Description:
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Before the eighteenth-century rise of the ideology of intimacy, sexuality was defined not by social affiliations but by bodies. 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.
Before the eighteenth-century rise of the ideology of intimacy, sexuality was defined not by social affiliations but by bodies. 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.