Queer Philologies: Sex, Language, and Affect in Shakespeare's Time

by Jeffrey Masten

Book Overview

For Jeffrey Masten, the history of sexuality and the history of language are intimately related. In Queer Philologies, he studies particular terms that illuminate the history of sexuality in Shakespeare's time and analyzes the methods we have used to study sex and gender in literary and cultural history. Building on the work of theorists and historians who have, following Foucault, investigated the importance of words like "homosexual,"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812224248
• ISBN13: 9780812224245
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 10.0"