Queering the Renaissance (Series Q) by Jonathan Goldberg PDF

Queering the Renaissance bargains a massive reassessment of the sphere of Renaissance stories. accumulating essays by way of 16 critics operating in the point of view of homosexual and lesbian reviews, this assortment redraws the map of sexuality and gender reports within the Renaissance. Taken jointly, those essays flow past restricting notions of identification politics through finding traditionally types of same-sex hope that aren't prepared by way of smooth definitions of gay and heterosexual.
The presence of latest background will be felt in the course of the quantity, starting with an research of the makes use of of Renaissance precedents within the 1986 U.S. ideally suited court docket determination Bowers v. Hardwick, to a bit at the foundations of 'our' nationwide imaginary, and an afterword that addresses how identification politics has formed the paintings of early glossy historians. the quantity examines canonical and noncanonical texts, together with hugely coded poems of the fifteenth-century Italian poet Burchiello, a story from Marguerite de Navarre's Heptameron, and Erasmus's letters to a tender male acolyte. English texts supply a relevant concentration, together with works by way of Spenser, Shakespeare, Bacon, Donne, Beaumont and Fletcher, Crashaw, and Dryden. large suveys of the advanced terrains of friendship and sodomy are explored in a single essay, whereas one other bargains a cross-cultural examining of the discursive websites of lesbian desire.

Contributors. Alan Bray, Marcie Frank, Carla Freccero, Jonathan Goldberg, Janet Halley, Graham Hammill, Margaret Hunt, Donald N. Mager, Jeff Masten, Elizabeth Pittenger, Richard Rambuss, Alan ok. Smith, Dorothy Stephens, Forrest Tyler Stevens, Valerie Traub, Michael Warner