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Zusatztext an exemplary piece of research a study, which, in brief, exhibits considerable range, shrewd, perceptive readings, and interpretations of literary-historical textual data, and well-informed and intelligent engagement with current critical debates. Informationen zum Autor Melissa E. Sanchez is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. Klappentext A distinctive study of how sixteenth- and seventeenth-century writers--mainly Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, Wroth, and Cavendish--used erotic desire, masochism, and cross-gender identification to explore the origins and limits of political allegiance; thereby offering new perspectives on histories of gender, sexuality, politics, and literature during the period. Zusammenfassung A distinctive study of how sixteenth- and seventeenth-century writers--mainly Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, Wroth, and Cavendish--used erotic desire, masochism, and cross-gender identification to explore the origins and limits of political allegiance; thereby offering new perspectives on histories of gender, sexuality, politics, and literature during the period. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Hagiographic Politics in The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia Tyrannous Seduction in The Faerie Queene Consent Without Agency in The Rape of Lucrece and Pericles Political Masochism in Mary Wroth's Urania Love and Liberty in the Caroline Masque Law and Desire in Margaret Cavendish's Romances The Erotics of Republicanism in Paradise Lost Index
