:Sexuality and Gender in Early Modern Europe: Institutions, Texts, Images

Abstract

List of illustrations Notes on contributors Preface and acknowledgements Introduction: a history of sexuality? 1. Marriage, love, sex, and Renaissance civic morality 2. Typology, sexuality and the Renaissance Esther 3. Artifice as seduction in Titian 4. Renaissance women and the question of class 5. Venetian women and their discontents 6. The ambiguity of beauty in Tasso and Petrarch 7. George Pettie, Barnaby Rich, and delights for women 'only' 8. Troping Utopia: Donne's brief for Lesbianism 9. Staging gender in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew 10. The semiotics of masculinity in Renaissance England 11. Recuperating women and the man behind the screen 12. Male Renaissance poets in the female body 13. The geography of Renaissance love 13. Gender and conduct in Paradise Lost.