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Erotic Subjects - The Sexuality of Politics in Early Modern English Literature (Paperback)
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Erotic Subjects - The Sexuality of Politics in Early Modern English Literature (Paperback)
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Treating sixteenth- and seventeenth-century erotic literature as
part of English political history, Erotic Subjects traces some
surprising implications of two early modern commonplaces: first,
that love is the basis of political consent and obedience, and
second, that suffering is an intrinsic part of love. Rather than
dismiss such assumptions as mere conventions, Melissa Sanchez
uncovers the political import of early modern literature's
fascination with eroticized violence. Focusing on representations
of masochism, sexual assault, and cross-gendered identification,
Sanchez re-examines the work of politically active writers from
Philip Sidney to John Milton. She argues that political allegiance
and consent appear far less conscious and deliberate than
traditional historical narratives allow when Sidney depicts
abjection as a source of both moral authority and sexual arousal;
when Edmund Spenser and William Shakespeare make it hard to
distinguish between rape and seduction; when Mary Wroth and
Margaret Cavendish depict women who adore treacherous or abusive
lovers; when court masques stress the pleasures of enslavement; or
when Milton insists that even Edenic marriage is hopelessly
pervaded by aggression and self-loathing. Sanchez shows that this
literature constitutes an alternate tradition of political theory
that acknowledges the irrational and perverse components of power
and thereby disrupts more conventional accounts of politics as
driven by self-interest, false consciousness, or brute force.
Erotic Subjects will be of interest to students and scholars of
early modern literary and political history, as well as those
interested in the histories of gender, sexuality, and affect more
generally.
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