Mario DiGangi. Sexual Types: Embodiment, Agency, and Dramatic Character from Shakespeare to Shirley. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. viii + 296 pp. $65. ISBN: 978–0–8122–4361–1.
Abstract:Mario DiGangi's latest book is an ambitious and eminently compelling study of sexual types in early modern English literature and culture. Though he may have chosen any number of types available in the period's cultural imaginary, DiGangi focuses on six: the sodomite, the tribade, the narcissistic courtier, the citizen wife, the bawd, and the monstrous favorite. As DiGangi defines the concept, ''the sexual type'' is not ''the bearer of a sexual identity or subjectivity,'' but rather ''a familiar cultural figur… Show more
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