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“mark albert johnston”

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  • Beard Fetish in Early Modern England

    Sex, Gender, and Registers of Value

    by Mark Albert Johnston ...
    Focusing on representations of beards in English Renaissance culture, this study elucidates how fetish objects validate ideological systems of power by materializing complex value in multiple registers. Providing detailed discussions of not only bearded men but also beardless boys, bearded women, and half-bearded hermaphrodites, author Mark Albert Johnston argues that attending closely to early ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Queering Childhood in Early Modern English Drama and Culture

    Edited by Jennifer Higginbotham, Mark Albert Johnston ...
    This volume analyzes early modern cultural representations of children and childhood through the literature and drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Contributors include leading international scholars of the English Renaissance whose essays consider asexuals and sodomites, roaring girls and schoolboys, precocious princes and raucous tomboys, boy actors and female apprentices, while ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

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  • Sex before Sex

    Figuring the Act in Early Modern England

    Edited by James M. Bromley, Will Stockton ...
    What is sex exactly? Does everyone agree on a definition? And does that definition hold when considering literary production in other times and places? Sex before Sex makes clear that we cannot simply transfer our contemporary notions of what constitutes a sex act into the past and expect them to be true for the people who were then reading literature and watching plays. The contributors confront ... Read more

    $19.79 USD

  • Intimacy and Sexuality in the Age of Shakespeare

    by James M. Bromley ...
    James Bromley argues that Renaissance texts circulate knowledge about a variety of non-standard sexual practices and intimate life narratives, including non-monogamy, anal eroticism, masochism and cross-racial female homoeroticism. Rethinking current assumptions about intimacy in Renaissance drama, poetry and prose, the book blends historicized and queer approaches to embodiment, narrative and ... Read more

    $49.19 USD

  • Early Modern Prose Fiction

    The Cultural Politics of Reading

    Edited by Naomi Conn Liebler ...
    Emphasizing the significance of early modern prose fiction as a hybrid genre that absorbed cultural, ideological and historical strands of the age, this fascinating study brings together an outstanding cast of critics including: Sheila T. Cavanaugh, Stephen Guy-Bray, Mary Ellen Lamb, Joan Pong Linton, Steve Mentz, Constance C. Relihan, Goran V. Stanivukovic with an afterword from Arthur Kinney ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Ecocriticism and Shakespeare

    Reading Ecophobia

    by Simon C. Estok ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book offers the term 'ecophobia' as a way of understanding and organizing representations of contempt for the natural world. Estok argues that this vocabulary is both necessary to the developing area of ecocritical studies and for our understandings of the representations of 'Nature' in Shakespeare. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Shakespeare, Authority, Sexuality

    Unfinished Business in Cultural Materialism

    by Alan Sinfield ...
    Series series Accents on Shakespeare
    Shakespeare, Authority, Sexuality is a powerful reassessment of cultural materialism as a way of understanding textuality, history and culture, by one of the founding figures of this critical movement. Alan Sinfield examines cultural materialism both as a body of ongoing argument and as it informs particular works by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, especially in relation to sexuality in early ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Alternative Shakespeares

    Volume 2

    Edited by Terence Hawkes ...
    Series series New Accents
    Alternative Shakespeares, published in 1985, shook up the world of Shakespearean studies, demythologising Shakespeare and applying new theories to the study of his work. Alternative Shakespeares: Volume 2 investigates Shakespearean criticism over a decade later, introducing new debates and new theorists into the frame.Both established scholars and new names appear here, providing a broad cross ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Homosexuality in Renaissance and Enlightenment England

    Literary Representations in Historical Context

    by Claude J Summers ...
    This new book significantly contributes to an increased understanding of the gay and lesbian experience as it illuminates important works of literature and clarifies the status of same-sex desire in English literature from 1500--1760. Homosexual themes can be found throughout the literature of the English Renaissance and Enlightenment, but only rarely are they direct and unambiguous. The essays ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • The Sound of Shakespeare

    by Wes Folkerth ...
    Series series Accents on Shakespeare
    The 'Sound of Shakespeare' reveals the surprising extent to which Shakespeare's art is informed by the various attitudes, beliefs, practices and discourses that pertained to sound and hearing in his culture.In this engaging study, Wes Folkerth develops listening as a critical practice, attending to the ways in which Shakespeare's plays express their author's awareness of early modern associations ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment

    Gender, Sexuality, and Race

    Edited by Valerie Traub ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment brings together 40 of the most important scholars and intellectuals writing on the subject today. Extending the purview of feminist criticism, it offers an intersectional paradigm for considering representations of gender in the context of race, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, and religion. In addition to sophisticated textual analysis drawing on ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Friendship and Queer Theory in the Renaissance

    Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern England

    by John S. Garrison ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
    In this volume, the author offers a substantial reconsideration of same-sex relations in the early modern period, and argues that early modern writers – rather than simply celebrating a classical friendship model based in dyadic exclusivity and a rejection of self-interest – sought to innovate on classical models for idealized friendship. This book redirects scholarly conversations regarding ... Read more

    $61.99 USD