Shattering the Self in Early Modern English Verse Gender, Sex, and Queerness Beyond the Human
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Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
02.02.2026
Verlag
Northwestern University PressSeitenzahl
216
Maße (L/B)
22.9/15.2 cm
Gewicht
454 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-8101-4882-6
Reconfiguring our understanding of early modern English erotic and literary landscapes
Rejecting the ideals of stability and sexual mastery demanded of masculine subjects, early modern English poets threw the limits of bodies and selves into question to embrace erotic experiences of genderqueer and transspecies embodiment and affiliation. Through close readings of still-canonical and lesser-read writers including William Shakespeare, John Donne, and Thomas Traherne, Gina Filo shows how these experimental encounters at the limits of the human were inextricable parts of the early modern literary and sexual imaginaries.
In its exploration of nonnormative forms of erotic attachment and embodiment, Shattering the Self in Early Modern English Verse: Gender, Sex, and Queerness Beyond the Human contributes to the burgeoning fields of early modern trans and ecocritical studies while also drawing on contemporary queer theory. Filo neither seeks to naively recuperate a fantasized past nor cedes relationality, sociality, or generativity to the normative. Instead, she shows how the embrace of erotic possibility, flexible, unstable subjectivities, and querying of the limits of 'the human' were core features of early modern poetics, reconfiguring our understanding of English literary history and queer relationality today.
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