Wanton Words: Rhetoric and Sexuality in English Renaissance Drama

Wanton Words: Rhetoric and Sexuality in English Renaissance Drama
ISBN-10
0802088376
ISBN-13
9780802088376
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
256
Language
English
Published
2004-01-01
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Author
Madhavi Menon

Description

Menon introduces rhetoric into the largely medico-juridical realm of studies on Renaissance sexuality. In doing so, she suggests that rhetoric allows us to think through the erotics of language in ways that pay most attention to the frisson of English Renaissance drama.

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