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Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Figuring Early Modern Sex Will Stockton and James M. Bromley 1. Invisible Sex!: What Looks Like the Act in Early Modern Drama? Christine Varnado 2. Death and Theory: Or, the Problem of Counterfactual Sex Kathryn Schwarz 3. Spectacular Impotence: Or, Things that Hardly Ever Happen in the Critical History of Pornography Melissa J. Jones 4. Unmanly Passion: Sodomitical Self-Fashioning in John Ford's Lover's Melancholy and Perkin Warbeck Nicholas F. Radel 5. Erotics of Chin-chucking in Seventeenth-Century England Will Fisher 6. Rimming the Renaissance James M. Bromley 7. Animal, Vegetable, Sexual: Metaphor in John Donne's Sappho to Philaenis and Andrew Marvell's The Garden Stephen Guy-Bray 8. Aping Rape: Animal Ravishment and Sexual Knowledge in Early Modern England Holly Dugan 9. Seduction of Milton's Lady: Rape, Psychoanalysis, and the Erotics of Consumption in Comus Will Stockton 10 How human life began: Sexual Reproduction in Book 8 of Paradise Lost Thomas H. Luxon Afterword Valerie Traub Contributors Index

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