Queer Renaissance historiography backward gaze (Ashgate, 2009)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Queer renaissance historiography : backward gaze / Stephen Guy-Bray, Vin Nardizzi, and Will Stockton -- A hundred years of queering the Renaissance / Will Fisher -- Beyond sodomy : what is still queer about early modern queer studies? / Goran Stanivuković -- "Let it suffise" : sexual acts and narrative structure in Hero and Leander / James M. Bromley -- Diana's band : safe spaces, publics, and early modern lesbianism / Jennifer Drouin -- Women's secretaries / Julie Crawford -- The touch of office : supernumerary economies and the Tudor public figure / Laurie Shannon -- Grafted to Falstaff and compounded with Catherine : mingling Hal in the second tetralogy / Vin Nardizzi -- Andrew Marvell and sexual difference / Stephen Guy-Bray -- Sexuality and society in the poetry of Katherine Philips / Graham Hammill -- Adam and Eve and the failure of heterosexuality / Will Stockton -- Afterword : period cramps / Madhavi Menon
Queer Renaissance Historiography examines the distinctive arrangement of sexuality during the Renaissance period and the role that queer theory has played in our understanding. This book sets the tone for future scholarship on Renaissance sexualities, making a timely intervention in theoretical and methodological debates