An important contribution to recent critical discussions about gender, sexuality, and material culture in Renaissance England, this study analyzes female- and male-authored lyrics to illuminate how gender and sexuality inflected sixteenth- and seventeenth-century poets' conceptualization of relations among people and things, human and non-human subjects and objects. Pamela Hammons examines lyrics from both manuscript and print collections and situates them in relation to legal theories, autobiographies, biographies, plays, and epics.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Contents: Introduction: his and hers; Part I Love Tokens: Robert Herrick's gift trouble; Women's poetic portraits of love tokens in heteroerotic courtship; Women's poetic portraits of love tokens in same-sex and divine relationships. Part II Houses and Land: The gendered imagination of real property in Renaissance England; Margaret Cavendish's disguised possession; Lucy Hutchinson's polluted palaces and ekphrastic empire; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
