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Sexuality and Memory in Early Modern England - Literature and the Erotics of Recollection (Paperback)
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Sexuality and Memory in Early Modern England - Literature and the Erotics of Recollection (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
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This volume brings together two vibrant areas of Renaissance
studies today: memory and sexuality. The contributors show that not
only Shakespeare but also a broad range of his contemporaries were
deeply interested in how memory and sexuality interact. Are erotic
experiences heightened or deflated by the presence of memory? Can a
sexual act be commemorative? Can an act of memory be eroticized?
How do forms of romantic desire underwrite forms of memory? To
answer such questions, these authors examine drama, poetry, and
prose from both major authors and lesser-studied figures in the
canon of Renaissance literature. Alongside a number of insightful
readings, they show that sonnets enact a sexual exchange of memory;
that epics of nationhood cannot help but eroticize their subjects;
that the act of sex in Renaissance tragedy too often depends upon
violence of the past. Memory, these scholars propose, re-shapes the
concerns of queer and sexuality studies - including the
unhistorical, the experience of desire, and the limits of the body.
So too does the erotic revise the dominant trends of memory
studies, from the rhetoric of the medieval memory arts to the
formation of collective pasts.
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