Premodern Sexualities

Punch in sexuality as a search word in the MLA online bibliography, and you'll come up with well over three thousand items published since 1981. By my estimate, at least ten percent of the journal and book articles and dissertations in this list are concerned with sexuality in texts written bef...

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Published in:PMLA : Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 2000-05, Vol.115 (3), p.318-329
Main Author: Smith, Bruce R.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cultural materialism
Culture
Deconstructionism
Desire
Early Modern literature
Female homosexuality
History
Lacanian philosophy
Literary criticism
New historicism
Queer culture
Queer theology
Queer theory
Sexuality
Theories and Methodologies
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Summary:Punch in sexuality as a search word in the MLA online bibliography, and you'll come up with well over three thousand items published since 1981. By my estimate, at least ten percent of the journal and book articles and dissertations in this list are concerned with sexuality in texts written before 1800. Add to that the scores of books on sexuality in medieval and early modern literature that have been published during the past fifteen years, and you have quite a pile of reading to do if you want to keep up-to-date. Not bad for a subject that didn't even exist when the literary texts in question were written—and still may not exist, at least in words.
ISSN:0030-8129
1938-1530
DOI:10.2307/463453