Before intimacy

Description:

Celebrating the ability of corporeal emotions to interpret connections between people who share nothing in terms of societal structure, Before Intimacy shows how these works of early modern literature provide a discourse of sexuality that strives to understand status differences in erotic contexts and thereby question key assumptions of modernity."--Pub. desc.

subjects: Emotions in literature,  English literature,  History,  History and criticism,  Intimacy (Psychology) in literature,  Literature and society,  Man-woman relationships in literature,  Sex (Psychology) in literature,  Sex customs,  Sex in literature,  English literature, history and criticism, early modern, 1500-1700,  Sex

Places: England

Times: 16th century,  17th century,  Early modern, 1500-1700