And Never Know the Joy : Sex and the Erotic in English Poetry.
Title:
And Never Know the Joy : Sex and the Erotic in English Poetry.
Author:
Barfoot, C.C.
ISBN:
9789401203401
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (503 pages)
Series:
DQR Studies in Literature, 36 ; v.v. 36
DQR Studies in Literature, 36
Contents:
Contents -- Preface -- Riddling Erotic Identity in Early English Lyrics -- Bodies of Knowledge: Embodying Riotous Performance in the Harley Lyrics -- The Pronouns of Love and Sex: Thou and Ye Among Lovers in The Canterbury Tales -- Reason versus Nature in Dunbar's "Tretis of the Twa Mariit Wemen and the Wedo" -- Prick-Song Ditties: Musical Metaphor in the Bawdy Verse of the Early Modern Period -- "Cease Thy Wanton Lust": Thomas Randolph's Elegy, the Cult of Venetia, and the Possibilities of Classical Sex -- The Nymph's Reply Nine Months Later -- Lowering the Libertine: Feminism in Rochester's "The Imperfect Enjoyment" -- "Upon a Little Lady": Gender and Desire in Early Modern English Lyrics -- "Freeborn Joy": Sexual Expression and Power in William Blake's Visions of the Daughters of Albion -- Of Melancholy and Mimesis: Social Bond(age)s in Visions of the Daughters of Albion -- "Happy Copulation": Revolutionary Sexuality in Blake and Shelley -- "Bursting Joy's Grape" in Keats' Odes -- "In This Strang Labourinth How Shall I Turne?": Erotic Symmetry in Four Female Sonnet Sequences -- Christina Rossetti's "Goblin Market": The Eroticism of Female Mystics -- "To Take Were to Purloin": Sexuality in the Narrative Poems of Christina Rossetti -- Renaissance Erotic in the Poetry of John Addington Symonds -- The Brilliance of Gas-Lit Eyes: Arthur Symons' Erotic Auto-Voyeurism Observed -- The Erotic in D.H. Lawrence's Early Poetry -- Triangulation of Desire in H.D.'s Hymen -- "Smile, O Voluptuous Cool-Breath'd Earth": Erotic Imagery and Context in Contemporary Ritual Authorship -- Two Tongues in One Mouth: Erotic Elements in Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill's Irish Poetry and Its English Translations -- Sex in the "Sick, Sick Body Politic": Tony Harrison's Fruit -- (Un)Dressing Black Nationalism: Nikki Giovanni's (Counter)Revolutionary Ethics.
Biblio-Erotic and Jewish Erotic Configurations in Georgia Scott's The Penny Bride -- Notes on Contributors -- Index I: Selected Motifs, Topics, Themes -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Index II: Authors, Texts and Publications, Selected Proper Names -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
"And Never Know the Joy" : Sex and the Erotic in English Poetry promises the reader much to enjoy and to reflect on: riddles and sex games; the grammar of relationships; the cunning psychology of bodily fantasies; sexuality as the ambiguous performance of words; the allure of music and its instruments; the erotics of death and remembrance, are just a few of the initial themes that emerge from the twenty-five articles to be found in this volume, with many an invitation "to seize the day". Reproduction, pregnancy, and fear; discredited and degraded libertines; the ventriloquism of sexual objects; the ease with which men are reduced to impotence by the carnality of women; orgasm and melancholy; erotic mysticism and religious sexuality; the potency and dangers of fruit and flowers; the delights of the recumbent male body and of dancing girls; the fertile ritual use of poetic texts; striptease and revolution; silent women reclaimed as active vessels, are amongst the many engaging topics that emerge out of the ongoing and entertaining scholarly discussion of sex and eroticism in English poetry.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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