TY - BOOK AU - Stockton,Will AU - Bromley,James M. ED - Project Muse. TI - Sex Before Sex: Figuring the Act in Early Modern England SN - 9781452939476 AV - PR428.S48 S49 2013 U1 - 820.9/353809031 23 PY - 2013/// CY - London PB - University of Minnesota Press KW - English drama KW - Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 KW - History and criticism KW - Intimacy (Psychology) in literature KW - Sex in literature KW - Sex KW - England KW - History KW - English literature KW - Early modern, 1500-1700 KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: Figuring early modern sex / Will Stockton and James M. Bromley -- "Invisible sex!": What looks like the act in early modern drama? / Christine Varnado -- Death and theory: Or, the problem of counterfactual sex / Kathryn Schwarz -- Spectacular impotence: Or, things that hardly ever happen in the critical history of pornography / Melissa J. Jones -- "Unmanly passion": Sodomitical self-fashioning in John Ford's The Lover's Melancholy and Perkin Warbeck / Nicholas F. Radel -- The erotics of chin-chucking in seventeenth-century England / Will Fisher -- Rimming the Renaissance / James M. Bromley -- Animal, vegetable, sexual: Metaphor in John Donne's "Sappho to Philaenis" and Andrew Marvell's "The garden" / Stephen Guy-Bray -- Aping rape: Animal ravishment and sexual knowledge in early modern England / Holly Dugan -- The seduction of Milton's lady: Rape, psychoanalysis, and the erotics of consumption in "Comus" / Will Stockton -- "How human life began": Sexual reproduction in Book 8 of Paradise Lost / Thomas H. Luxon -- Afterword / Valerie Traub UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781452939476/ ER -