How to Undo the History of Sexuality
Editing Edward Taylor'sMeditations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3136661 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jordan Alexander Stein (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 90 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 753-784 |
| Publication date | 2018-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Literature (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9831 • E-ISSN: 1527-2117 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/00029831-7208536 |
| OpenAlex | W2909908838 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 60 |
This essay establishes how the scholarly labors that brought Edward Taylor's works to light in the 1930s foreclosed any understanding of them as queer. The absence of a queer critical reception history is this essay's subject, and to trace that absence, it focuses on the material and intellectual terms of Taylor's initial critical reception and on the political forces and critical assumptions that bear on those terms. Taylor's devotional Meditations offer an exemplary case for understanding how many of the ordinary labors associated with recovery and publication-the scholarly acts that stand, ultimately, behind nearly any interpretation of any literary text, including genre classification, editorial presentation, and genealogical authentication-have often been versions of what Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick described in the late 1980s as "the extremely elusive and maddeningly plural ways in which cultures and their various institutions efface and alter sexual meaning
Art · Epistemology · Human sexuality · Interpretation (philosophy) · Linguistics · Literature · Meaning (existential) · Plural · Presentation (obstetrics) · Queer · Queer theory · Sociology · Subject (documents) · TRACE (psycholinguistics) · Undo · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Computer Science · Gender Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History · Philosophy · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics
Ramus, method, and the decay of dialogue
Prophetic Woman
Protestant Poetics and the Seventeenth-Century Religious Lyric
The Natural History of Sexuality in Early America
Gérard Genette Paratexts
"Sodometries"
The Interpretation of Material Shapes in Puritanism
The Poetical Works of Edward Taylor
Edward Taylor
Saint and Singer
A Seventeenth-Century Printing of Some verses of Edward Taylor
The Puritans and Sex
Some Edward Taylor Gleanings
Edward Taylor
John Hay
The Practice of Piety
Prophetic Woman
Female Piety in Puritan New England
The Puritan Conscience and Modern Sexuality
Creating American Civilization
The Interpretation of Material Shapes in Puritanism
Literature & Theology in Colonial New England
The Language of Puritan Feeling
The Work of Self-Representation
Modern Poetry and the Tradition
The Modern Poetic Sequence
The Will and the Word
Creating American Civilization
Edward Taylor
Ethics
Homophobias
The New England Mind
To be a man in early modern society
Poetry as Experience
The Common Reader and the Archival Classroom
Edward Taylor's Use of His Text
Nineteen Unpublished Poems by Edward Taylor
Mary Rowlandson's Hunger and the Historiography of Sexuality
Literature and Theology in Colonial New England
The Poetical Works of Edward Taylor
The Morality Tradition in the Poetry of Edward Taylor
Saint and Singer
Edward Taylor, Hellenistic Puritan
Preparing the Soul for Christ
New English Sodom
Edward Taylor's Protestant Poetic
The Veiled Vision
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |