Claude J Summers
Biographic Data
| ID | 1025176 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Claude J Summers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Claude J |
| FAMILY NAME | Summers |
| SIGNATURE | SUMMERS C J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan–Dearborn |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage
The revised edition of The Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage is a reader's companion to this impressive body of work. It provides overviews of gay and lesbian presence in a variety of literatures and historical periods; in-depth critical essays on major gay and lesbian authors in world literature; and briefer treatments of other topics and figures important in appreciating the rich and varied gay and lesbian literary traditions. Included are near…
Homosexuality in Renaissance and Enlightenment England
The Wit of Seventeenth-Century Poetry
As the twelve original essays collected in this volume demonstrate, to study the wit of seventeenth-century poetry is necessarily to address concerns at the very heart of the period's shifting literary culture. It is a topic that raises persistent questions of thematics and authorial intent, even as it interrogates a wide spectrum of cultural practices. These essays by some of the most renowned scholars in seventeenth-century studies illuminate i…
Playing with Desire
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Representing Women in Renaissance England
My Soule in Silence? Devotional Representations of Renaissance English-Women, Helen Wilcox Complications of Intertextuality - John Fisher, Katherine Parr and The Book of the Crucifix, Janet Mueller Translating Italian Thought about Women in Elizabethan England - Harington's Orlando Furioso, Pamela Joseph Benson Women and Magic in English Renaissance Love Poetry, Gareth Roberts Women in the Lyric Dialogue of Courtship - Whitney's Admonition to Al …
Anxious Masculinity in Early Modern England
Mark Breitenberg. Anxious Masculinity in Early Modern England. (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture, 10.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. x + 225 pp. 16.95 (pbk). ISBN: 0-521-48141-4 (cl); ISBN: 0-52- 48588-6 (pbk). - Volume 51 Issue 4
The (Homo)Sexual Temptation in Milton'sParadise Regained
While the sexual temptation of Paradise Regained is tactful, it is also characteristically Miltonic in its daring. Despite its decorous presentation, the temptation is exceedingly bold in that it is not merely a heterosexual temptation but a homosexual one as well. Such a recognition also helps place in perspective the alleged misogyny of Paradise Regained, even as it also reveals the complexity of Milton's poetic technique, particularly his abil…
On the Celebrated and Neglected Poems of Andrew Marvell
SHAWCROSS, John T. Intentionality and the New Traditionalism
Gay Fictions
Gay Fictions
Homosexuality and Renaissance Literature, or the Anxieties of Anachronism
Homosexuality is a vexed topic for historical and literary study for many reasons, prominent among which are some basic conceptual problems, including definitional ones. Who, exactly, is a homosexual? What constitutes homosexual identity? To what extent is sexuality the product of broadly defined social forces? To what degree do sexual object choices manifest a biological or psychological essence within the desiring individual? These questions ar…
Ben Jonson and the Poetics of Patronage
"The Muses Common-weale"
Herrick’s Sequence of Grief and Comfort
NotesF.W. Moorman. Robert Herrick A Biographical and Critical Study (1910; New York: Russell & Russell, 1962). p. 111.Anonymous. Review of Moorman’s Roberl Herrick: A Biographical and Critical Study, in Athenaeum. 14 May 1910. p. 576.L.C. Martin, ed., The Poetical Works of Robert Herrick (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956), p. 515; J. Max Patrick, ed., The Complete Poetry of Robert Herrick (New York: New York Univ. Press. 1963), p. 104.Alexander B. G…
"Bright Shootes of Everlastingnesse"
Homosexuality and Renaissance Literature, or the Anxieties of Anachronism
Homosexuality is a vexed topic for historical and literary study for many reasons, prominent among which are some basic conceptual problems, including definitional ones. Who, exactly, is a homosexual? What constitutes homosexual identity? To what extent is sexuality the product of broadly defined social forces? To what degree do sexual object choices manifest a biological or psychological essence within the desiring individual? These questions ar…
"Bright Shootes of Everlastingnesse"
Herrick’s Sequence of Grief and Comfort
NotesF.W. Moorman. Robert Herrick A Biographical and Critical Study (1910; New York: Russell & Russell, 1962). p. 111.Anonymous. Review of Moorman’s Roberl Herrick: A Biographical and Critical Study, in Athenaeum. 14 May 1910. p. 576.L.C. Martin, ed., The Poetical Works of Robert Herrick (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956), p. 515; J. Max Patrick, ed., The Complete Poetry of Robert Herrick (New York: New York Univ. Press. 1963), p. 104.Alexander B. G…
Ben Jonson and the Poetics of Patronage
"The Muses Common-weale"
Gay Fictions
Gay Fictions
Homosexuality and Renaissance Literature, or the Anxieties of Anachronism
Homosexuality is a vexed topic for historical and literary study for many reasons, prominent among which are some basic conceptual problems, including definitional ones. Who, exactly, is a homosexual? What constitutes homosexual identity? To what extent is sexuality the product of broadly defined social forces? To what degree do sexual object choices manifest a biological or psychological essence within the desiring individual? These questions ar…
SHAWCROSS, John T. Intentionality and the New Traditionalism
On the Celebrated and Neglected Poems of Andrew Marvell
The (Homo)Sexual Temptation in Milton'sParadise Regained
While the sexual temptation of Paradise Regained is tactful, it is also characteristically Miltonic in its daring. Despite its decorous presentation, the temptation is exceedingly bold in that it is not merely a heterosexual temptation but a homosexual one as well. Such a recognition also helps place in perspective the alleged misogyny of Paradise Regained, even as it also reveals the complexity of Milton's poetic technique, particularly his abil…
Representing Women in Renaissance England
My Soule in Silence? Devotional Representations of Renaissance English-Women, Helen Wilcox Complications of Intertextuality - John Fisher, Katherine Parr and The Book of the Crucifix, Janet Mueller Translating Italian Thought about Women in Elizabethan England - Harington's Orlando Furioso, Pamela Joseph Benson Women and Magic in English Renaissance Love Poetry, Gareth Roberts Women in the Lyric Dialogue of Courtship - Whitney's Admonition to Al …
Anxious Masculinity in Early Modern England
Mark Breitenberg. Anxious Masculinity in Early Modern England. (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture, 10.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. x + 225 pp. 16.95 (pbk). ISBN: 0-521-48141-4 (cl); ISBN: 0-52- 48588-6 (pbk). - Volume 51 Issue 4
Playing with Desire
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Wit of Seventeenth-Century Poetry
As the twelve original essays collected in this volume demonstrate, to study the wit of seventeenth-century poetry is necessarily to address concerns at the very heart of the period's shifting literary culture. It is a topic that raises persistent questions of thematics and authorial intent, even as it interrogates a wide spectrum of cultural practices. These essays by some of the most renowned scholars in seventeenth-century studies illuminate i…
Homosexuality in Renaissance and Enlightenment England
Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage
The revised edition of The Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage is a reader's companion to this impressive body of work. It provides overviews of gay and lesbian presence in a variety of literatures and historical periods; in-depth critical essays on major gay and lesbian authors in world literature; and briefer treatments of other topics and figures important in appreciating the rich and varied gay and lesbian literary traditions. Included are near…
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