Garrison / Pivetti Sexuality and Memory in Early Modern England

Literature and the Erotics of Recollection
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-317-54888-1
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 282 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

Revealing often-neglected points of contact between the subjects of memory and erotics in the early modern period, this volume brings together two of the most vibrant areas of Renaissance studies today: the study of memory and the study of sexuality. Essays explore early modern depictions that render visible how these studies overlap in the literary acts of memory deemed erotic and the literary acts of eroticism deemed memorial. The volume explores how memory re-shapes the concerns of queer studies, including the unhistorical, the experience of desire, and the limits of the body, and 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. By exploring this evocative intersection, this book opens new lines of inquiry into the study of early modern literature and culture: 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 has sexual trauma been manipulated in the efforts of commemoration? How do forms of romantic desire underwrite forms of memory? The essays employ various critical approaches and examine diverse texts, including poems and plays, as well as elegies, wills, dedications, histories, and life writing. Showing that not only Shakespeare but also a broad range of his contemporaries were deeply interested in the interoperability of memory and sexuality, the volume suggests that sexuality and memory are mutually constitutive, and that both undergird the fraught constructions of social identity in early modern England.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Garrison, John S.

Pivetti, Kyle

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction John Garrison and Kyle Pivetti Part I. The Classics and Memories of Troy 1. The Will and Testamentary Eroticism in Shakespearean Drama Douglas Clark 2. Paris, Oenone, and the Trojan War Joyce Greene MacDonald 3. Marlowe’s Helen: The Pagan Body as Site of Erotic Cultural Memory John Garrison Part II. Memorializing Sensuality in the Sonnets 4. Remembering to Forget Stephen Guy-Bray 5. ‘Despisèd straight’: Shakespeare's Discovery of Semantic Memory Bias Ian MacInnes Part III. The Body as a Site of Erotic Memory 6. False Muscle Memory: Sexual Experience in Marlowe and Nashe Robert Darcy 7. ’The monument woos me’: Eroticizing the Dead in Thomas Middleton’s The Lady’s Tragedy Heather Wicks 8. Dying to Please: Distraction, Death, and the Eroticism of Forgetting in Antony and Cleopatra Jonathan Baldo Part IV. Sexual Trauma and Political History 9. Between Election and Hope: Political Ecstasy in Hamlet Amanda Bailey 10. Exemplarity and its Discontents in Michael Drayton’s Englands Heroical Epistles Andrew Fleck 11. ‘The stage is down, and Philomela’s choir is hushed from pricksong’: Revising and (Re)membering in Middleton’s The Ghost of Lucrece Dee Anna Phares Part V. Spenser and the Art of Erotic Memory 12. Desiring Memory in Spenser's Amoretti and The Faerie Queene Kyle Pivetti 13. Spenser’s Erotic Refusals Su Fang Ng 14. The Gallery of Erotic Memory in The Faerie Queene Goran Stanivukovic 15. Guinevere’s Ghost Kenneth Hodges Afterword Garrett A. Sullivan

Über Autor(innen)

John Garrison is Associate Professor of English at Carroll University, US.

Kyle Pivetti is Assistant Professor of English at Norwich University, US.