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Before Intimacy - Asocial Sexuality in Early Modern England (Hardcover)
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Before Intimacy - Asocial Sexuality in Early Modern England (Hardcover)
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Before the eighteenth-century rise of the ideology of intimacy,
sexuality was defined not by social affiliations but by bodies. In
"Before Intimacy," Daniel Juan Gil examines sixteenth-century
English literary concepts of sexuality that frame erotic ties as
neither bound by social customs nor transgressive of them, but
rather as "loopholes" in people's experiences and associations.
Engaging the poems of Wyatt, Sidney's "Astrophil and Stella,"
Spenser's "Amoretti" and "The Faerie Queene," and Shakespeare's
"Troilus and Cressida" and the "Sonnets," Gil demonstrates how
sexuality was conceived as a relationship system inhabited by men
and women interchangeably--set apart from the "norm" and not
institutionalized in a private or domestic realm. Going beyond the
sodomy-as-transgression analytic, he asserts the existence of
socially inconsequential sexual bonds while recognizing the
pleasurable effects of violating the supposed traditional modes of
bonding and ideals of universal humanity and social hierarchy.
Celebrating the ability of corporeal emotions to interpret
connections between people who share nothing in terms of societal
structure, "Before Intimacy" shows how these works of early modern
literature provide a discourse of sexuality that strives to
understand status differences in erotic contexts and thereby
question key assumptions of modernity.
Daniel Juan Gil is assistant professor of English at TCU.
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