Erotic subjects : the sexuality of politics in early modern English literature /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Sanchez, Melissa E.
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Subjects:	English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism. Politics and literature. Sex (Psychology) Literature and society > England > History > 16th century. Literature and society > England > History > 17th century. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Erotic subjects in English history
"She therein ruling": hagiographic politics in the Countess of Pembroke's arcadia
"Who can loue the worker of her smart?": tyrannous seduction in The faerie queene
"Accessory yieldings": consent without agency in The rape of Lucrece and Pericles
"Love, thou dost master me": political masochism in Mary Wroth's Urania
"It is consent that makes a perfect slave": love and liberty in the Caroline Masque
"Honest Margaret Newcastle": law and desire in Margaret Cavendish's romances
"My self/before me": the erotics of republicanism in Paradise lost
"Lives there who loves his pain?".