Before Pornography: Erotic Writing in Early Modern England
by Ian Frederick Moulton
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Explores the relationship between erotic writing, masculinity, and national identity in Renaissance England. This work argues that pornography is a historical phenomenon. It addresses the social significance of eroticism in such canonical texts as "Sidney's Defense of Poesy" and "Spenser's Faerie Queene".Tags
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Ian Frederick Moulton is Professor of English in Arizona State University's School of Letters and Sciences, USA. He has published widely on the representation of gender and sexuality in early modern European literature. His books include Before Pornography and an edition of Antonio Vignali's La Cazzaria.
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- Before Pornography: Erotic Writing in Early Modern England
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- Literature Studies and Criticism, Fiction and Literature, LGBTQ+
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- 820.9 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English and Old English (Anglo-Saxon) literatures History, description, critical appraisal of works in more than one form
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- PR428 .S48 .M68 — Language and Literature English English Literature By period Modern Elizabethan era (1550-1640)
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