In the years since the publication of Jonathan Goldberg’s Queering the Renaissance (1994), a large amount of scholarship on queerness and sexuality in Renaissance literature has appeared in print or been delivered at conferences and colloquia. In this book, we seek to both reflect on and make a unique contribution to this body of scholarship. In The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England, one of the books that has transformed our field as scholars of Renaissance sexuality and which we cite here pars pro toto, Valerie Traub says that in writing her book she assumed “neither that we will find in the past a mirror image of ourselves nor that the past is so utterly alien that we will find nothing usable in its fragmentary traces” (2002: 32). To some extent, we share Traub’s aims, and we certainly admire her work, but we would question her emphasis on the category of use. [download]
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