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Developments in the Histories of Sexualities: In Search of the Normal,1600-1800 explores the oppositionscreated by the official exclusion ofbanned sexual practices and theresistance to that exclusion throughwidespread acceptance of thoseoutlawed practices at an interpersonallevel.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Sexuality Post(con)structuralism and After
Chris Mounsey
One: The History of Homosexuality Reconsidered
George Haggerty
Two: Queer Renaissance Dramaturgy, Shakespeare's Shrew, and the Deconstruction of Marriage
David Orvis
Three: 'Unusual Fires': Ann Batten Cristall's Queer Temporality
Chris Nagle
Four: De-sexing the Lesbian: Isaac de Benserade's Narrative Quest
Marianne Legault
Five: Unqueering Sappho and Effeminizing the Author in Early Modern Italy
Clorinda Donato
Six: 'A Thing Perhaps Impossible': The 1811 Woods/Pirie Trial and Its Legacies
Chris Roulston
Seven: The Molly and the Fop: Untangling Effeminacy in the Eighteenth Century
Sally O'Driscoll
Eight: Considering Female Masculinities in Eighteenth Century Britain
Katharine Kittredge
Nine: The Sound of Men in Love
Thomas Alan King
Ten: "An Extraordinary Subject for Dissection": James Allen and Lavinia Edwards
Caroline Gonda
Bibliography
Index
About the Contributors
About the author
Chris Mounsey is professor of English at the University of Winchester.
