{"product_id":"homosexual-desire-in-shakespeares-england-a-cultural-poetics-9780226763668","title":"Homosexual Desire in Shakespeare's England: A Cultural Poetics","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the most comprehensive study yet of homosexuality in the English Renaissance  Bruce R. Smith examines and rejects the assessments of homosexual acts in moral philosophy  laws  and medical books in favor of a poetics of homosexual desire. Smith isolates six different \"myths\" from classical literature and discusses each in relation to a particular Renaissance literary genre and to a particular part of the social structure of early modern England. Smiths new Preface places his work in the context of the continuing controversies in gay  lesbian  and bisexual studies.  \"The best single analysis of the homoerotic element in Renaissance English literature.\"Keith Thomas  New York Review of Books  \"Smiths lucid and subtle book offers a poetics of homosexual desire. . . . Its scholarship  impressively broad and deftly deployed  aims to further a serious social purpose: the redemptive location of homosexual desire in history and the recuperation for our own time  through an understanding of its discursive embodiments  of that desires changing imperatives and parameters.\"Terence Hawkes  Times Literary Supplement  \"The great strength of Bruce Smiths book is that it does not sidestep the complex challenge of engaging in the sexual politics of the present while attending to the resistant discourses and practices of Renaissance England. Homosexual Desire in Shakespeares England demonstrates how a commitment to the present opens up our understanding of the past.\"Peter Stallybrass  Shakespeare Quarterly  \"A major contribution to the understanding of homosexuality in Renaissance England and by far the best and most comprehensive account yet offered of the homoeroticism that suffuses Renaissance literature.\"Claude J. Summers  Journal of Homosexuality\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45665874935861,"sku":"ByrdShop_0226763668","price":39.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780226763668.jpg?v=1782411774","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/homosexual-desire-in-shakespeares-england-a-cultural-poetics-9780226763668","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}