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Before Pornography Erotic Writing in Early Modern England

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Full Title

Before Pornography Erotic Writing in Early Modern England

Author(s)

Ian Frederick Moulton

Edition
ISBN

9780195350357, 9780195137095, 9780195179828

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

Before Pornography explores the relationship between erotic writing, masculinity, and national identity in Renaissance England. Drawing on both manuscripts and printed texts, and incorporating insights from modern feminist theory and queer studies, the book argues that pornography is a historical phenomenon: while the representation of sexual activity exists in nearly all cultures, pornography does not. The book includes analyses of the social significance of eroticism in such canonical texts as Sidney’s Defense of Poesy and Spenser’s Faerie Queene.