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Developments in the Histories of Sexualities
In Search of the Normal, 1600–1800
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2013
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Developments in the Histories of Sexualities: In Search of the Normal,1600-1800 explores the oppositionscreated by the official exclusion ofbanned sexual practices and theresistance to that exclusion throughwidespread acceptance of thoseoutlawed practices at an interpersonallevel. At different times and in differentplaces, state legislation sets up—ortries to set up—a “normal” by rejectinga particular practice or group ofpractices. Yet this “normal” is derogatedby popular practice, since the bannedacts themselves are thought at thegrassroots level to be “normal.” Amongthe events discussed in these essaysare the Woods-Pirie trial, the “Ladies ofLlangollen,” the popular acceptance offops and mollies, and the press reactionto the discovery that James Allen wasa woman who had lived successfullyas a man and Lavinia Edwards wasa man who had made her living as afemale prostitute. Developments in the History of Sexualities analyzesboth the state language of bansand fiats about sexuality, and thegrassroots language which marks theacceptance of multiplicity in sexualpractice. Contributors benefit fromthe accumulation of new evidenceof attitudes towards sexual practice,and they engage with a wide range oftexts, including Ned Ward’s History of the Clubs, Tobias Smollett’s Roderick Random, Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew and The Tempest, Dryden’s All for Love, Anne Batten Cristall’s Poetical Sketches, Isaac de Benserade’s Iphis et Iante, and Alessandro Verri’s Le Avventure di Saffo.
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Copyright year
2013
ISBN-Print
978-1-61148-500-4
ISBN-Online
978-1-61148-501-1
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
304
Product type
Edited Book
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CONTENTS No access
INTRODUCTION No access
Ch01. THE HISTORY OF HOMOSEXUALITY RECONSIDERED No access Pages 1 - 16
Ch02. QUEER RENAISSANCE DRAMATURGY, SHAKESPEARE’S SHREW, AND THE DECONSTRUCTION OF MARRIAGE No access Pages 17 - 50
Ch03. ‘UNUSUAL FIRES’ No access Pages 51 - 70
Ch04. DE-SEXING THE LESBIAN No access Pages 71 - 90
Ch05. UNQUEERING SAPPHO AND EFFEMINIZING THE AUTHOR IN EARLY MODERN ITALY No access Pages 91 - 124
Ch06. ‘A THING PERHAPS IMPOSSIBLE’ No access Pages 125 - 144
Ch07. THE MOLLY AND THE FOP No access Pages 145 - 172
Ch08. PROTO-BUTCH OR TEMPORALLY-CHALLENGED TRANS? CONSIDERING FEMALE MASCULINITIES IN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY BRITAIN No access Pages 173 - 208
Ch09. THE SOUND OF MEN IN LOVE No access Pages 209 - 248
Ch10. “AN EXTRAORDINARY SUBJECT FOR DISSECTION” No access Pages 249 - 270
