Queer Philologies: Sex, Language, and Affect in Shakespeare's Time

For Jeffrey Masten, the history of sexuality and the history of language are intimately related. In Queer...
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Queer Philologies: Sex, Language, and Affect in Shakespeare's Time by Masten, Jeffrey

Queer Philologies: Sex, Language, and Affect in Shakespeare's Time

¥8,485

Queer Philologies: Sex, Language, and Affect in Shakespeare's Time

¥8,485
Author: Jeffrey Masten
Format: Paperback
Language: English

For Jeffrey Masten, the history of sexuality and the history of language are intimately related. In Queer Philologies, he studies particular terms that illuminate the history of sexuality in Shakespeare's time and analyzes the methods we have used to study sex and gender in literary and cultural history. Building on the work of theorists and historians who have, following Foucault, investigated the importance of words like homosexual, sodomy, and tribade in a variety of cultures and historical periods, Masten argues that just as the history of sexuality requires the history of language, so too does philology, the love of the word, require the analytical lens provided by the study of sexuality.

Masten unpacks the etymology, circulation, transformation, and constitutive power of key words within the early modern discourse of sex and gender--terms such as conversation and intercourse, fundament and foundation, friend and boy--that described bodies, pleasures, emotions, sexual acts, even (to the extent possible in this period) sexual identities. Analyzing the continuities as well as differences between Shakespeare's language and our own, he offers up a queer lexicon in which the letter Q is perhaps the queerest character of all.

Author: Jeffrey Masten
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 09/13/2018
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.76d
ISBN: 9780812224245

About the Author
Jeffrey Masten is Professor of English and of Gender and Sexuality Studies at Northwestern University and author of Textual Intercourse: Collaboration, Authorship, and Sexualities in Renaissance Drama.

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