{"product_id":"rogue-sexuality-in-early-modern-english-literature-desire-status-biopolitics-hardcover","title":"Rogue Sexuality in Early Modern English Literature: Desire, Status, Biopolitics - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAri Friedlander\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe \"rogue,\" a term that described criminals, prostitutes, vagrants, beggars, and the unemployed, dominated the pages of early modern popular crime literature. \u003cem\u003eRogue Sexuality \u003c\/em\u003eresituates the rogue by focusing on how their menace--and their seductive appeal--emerged not only from their social marginality, but also from their supposedly excessive sexuality and prodigious sexual reproduction. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough discussions of both familiar and little-studied early modern works by William Shakespeare, John Milton, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, Thomas Dekker, Robert Greene, Thomas Harman, and the inventor of modern demography John Graunt, this volume posits the sexualized rogue as the avatar of a new category of \"socio-sexual identity\" and traces a surprising social transposition, in which socio-political elites are portrayed as appropriating the rogue's sexual vitality and performative charisma to navigate moments of crisis. By tracking the movement of rogue sexuality from a criminal to a normative discursive register, this book challenges the distinctions that literary critics and historians tend to draw between orderly and disorderly sexuality. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith its focus on reproduction, rogue sexuality also provides a new framework for what Michel Foucault called \"biopolitics,\" the state's focus on exercising power over life. In legal, administrative, and scientific documents, this book shows that early modern writers grappled with popular pamphlets' rendering of the alleged threat of rogue reproduction. \u003cem\u003eRogue Sexuality\u003c\/em\u003e thus offers a new approach to the political history of early modern England as a population--as a people whose aggregate sexual life and reproduction were a key part of its political imagination.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAri Friedlander, \u003cem\u003eAssistant Professor of English, University of Mississippi\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAri Friedlander is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Mississippi. His scholarship on sexuality, class, and disability in early modern English literature has been published in \u003cem\u003eSEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, JEMCS: Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment\u003c\/em\u003e, and other venues. His research has been supported by grants from the Henry E. Huntington Library, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Volkswagen Foundation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.72 x 9.31 x 6.46 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 30, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42157314474119,"sku":"9780192863171","price":179.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/546e0b84b14e02dfde710dd2793695f6.webp?v=1733249970","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/rogue-sexuality-in-early-modern-english-literature-desire-status-biopolitics-hardcover","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}