Rogue Sexuality in Early Modern English Literature (PDF)
Desire, Status, Biopolitics
(Sprache: Englisch)
The "rogue," a term that described criminals, prostitutes, vagrants, beggars, and the unemployed, dominated the pages of early modern popular crime literature. Rogue Sexuality resituates the rogue by focusing on how their menace-and their seductive...
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The "rogue," a term that described criminals, prostitutes, vagrants, beggars, and the unemployed, dominated the pages of early modern popular crime literature. Rogue Sexuality resituates the rogue by focusing on how their menace-and their seductive appeal-emerged not only from their social marginality, but also from their supposedly excessive sexuality and prodigious sexual reproduction.
Through discussions of both familiar and little-studied early modern works by William Shakespeare, John Milton, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, Thomas Dekker, Robert Greene, Thomas Harman, and the inventor of modern demography John Graunt, this volume posits the sexualized rogue as the avatar of a new category of "socio-sexual identity" and traces a surprising social transposition, in which socio-political elites are portrayed as appropriating the rogue's sexual vitality and performative charisma
to navigate moments of crisis. By tracking the movement of rogue sexuality from a criminal to a normative discursive register, this book challenges the distinctions that literary critics and historians tend to draw between orderly and disorderly sexuality.
With its focus on reproduction, rogue sexuality also provides a new framework for what Michel Foucault called "biopolitics," the state's focus on exercising power over life. In legal, administrative, and scientific documents, this book shows that early modern writers grappled with popular pamphlets' rendering of the alleged threat of rogue reproduction. Rogue Sexuality thus offers a new approach to the political history of early modern England as a population-as a people whose
aggregate sexual life and reproduction were a key part of its political imagination.
Through discussions of both familiar and little-studied early modern works by William Shakespeare, John Milton, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, Thomas Dekker, Robert Greene, Thomas Harman, and the inventor of modern demography John Graunt, this volume posits the sexualized rogue as the avatar of a new category of "socio-sexual identity" and traces a surprising social transposition, in which socio-political elites are portrayed as appropriating the rogue's sexual vitality and performative charisma
to navigate moments of crisis. By tracking the movement of rogue sexuality from a criminal to a normative discursive register, this book challenges the distinctions that literary critics and historians tend to draw between orderly and disorderly sexuality.
With its focus on reproduction, rogue sexuality also provides a new framework for what Michel Foucault called "biopolitics," the state's focus on exercising power over life. In legal, administrative, and scientific documents, this book shows that early modern writers grappled with popular pamphlets' rendering of the alleged threat of rogue reproduction. Rogue Sexuality thus offers a new approach to the political history of early modern England as a population-as a people whose
aggregate sexual life and reproduction were a key part of its political imagination.
Autoren-Porträt von Ari Friedlander
Ari Friedlander is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Mississippi. His scholarship on sexuality, class, and disability in early modern English literature has been published in SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, JEMCS: Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment, and other venues. His research has been supported by grants from the Henry E. Huntington Library, the Andrew W. MellonFoundation, and the Volkswagen Foundation.
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- Autor: Ari Friedlander
- 2023, 240 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0192677942
- ISBN-13: 9780192677945
- Erscheinungsdatum: 30.01.2023
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