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Discusses the way that the figure of the rogue persistently conflates sexual and social deviance, and argues that the association between roguery and disorderly sexuality is key to understanding early modern relationships between sexuality, status, and biopolitics.
List of contents
- Introduction: Rogue Sexuality
- 1: Rogue Curious: Sexuality, Etiology, and the Paths of Allo-Identification in Early Modern Rogue Literature
- 2: Gender, Mastery, and Sexual Cozening in the Rogue Querelle des Femmes and Ben Jonson's Epicoene
- 3: A Promiscuous Generation: Labor, Rogue Reproduction, and the Politics of Biopolitics
- 4: Roguery, Bastardy, and Biopolitics in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale
- 5: Rogue Sexuality's Afterlives, or Milton's Charitable Divorce and the Rise of Companionate Marriage
- Coda: Rogue Methodology
About the author
Ari Friedlander is Associate Professor of English at the University of Mississippi. His scholarship on sexuality, class, and disability in early modern English literature has been published in
SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, JEMCS: Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment, and other venues. His research has been supported by grants from the Henry E. Huntington Library, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Volkswagen Foundation.
Summary
Discusses the way that the figure of the rogue persistently conflates sexual and social deviance, and argues that the association between roguery and disorderly sexuality is key to understanding early modern relationships between sexuality, status, and biopolitics.
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[A] welcome addition to the study of social forces that shape - and are shaped by - gender and sexuality in early modern English literature....[T]his learned and evocative study, would make for excellent reading in an undergraduate or graduate course on early modern gender and sexuality studies.
