Secret Sexualities: A SourceBook of 17th and 18th Century Writing
Secret Sexualities is expansive in its historical range, vast sources and scholarly research. It contains rare, unpublished, primary material, extensive critical and contextual material by the editor, and refuses to discriminate between issues of sex, sexuality and gender.\ The coverage includes:\ • extracts dealing with anatomy and medicine\ • the cultural construction of eunuchs and hermaphrodites\ • famous trials for sodomy and the forgotten victims of the law\ • representations of...
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A groundbreaking, comprehensive study of lesbian and gay culture from 1620-1785, Secret Sexualities collects for the first time a broad range of rare primary documents from the Renaissance. This collection identifies the origins and historical components of gay and lesbian identities. Representing lesbians and gay men in the period's own manners and terms, Secret Sexualities is critical reading for students of literature, gender, and cultural history.Secret Sexualities contains rare and previously unpublished material, and takes a bold approach to issues of sex, sexuality, and gender in the Renaissance. Divided into four sections, author Ian McCormick examines: Anatomies (the construction of eunuchs and hermaphrodites; the relationship between the grotesque body, sex, and gender); Crimes and Punishments (sodomy trials; punishment; literary and imaginary perception of sodomy trials); Representations (gay men in the popular imagination; songs, poems, pamphlets, and sermons); Sapphic Texts (cross- dressing; female husbands; courtships and sexual practices; lesbian culture).Secret Sexualities includes critical introductions for each section and extract, as well as a bibliography and glossary.
AcknowledgementsGeneral Introduction1Degrees and Symptoms of the Venereal Disease15A Treatise of Hermaphrodites18Eunuchism Displayed21The Nature of Hermaphrodites34The Fall and Great Vices of Sir Francis Bacon52Mervin, Lord Audley, Earl of Castlehaven53The Case of John Atherton62The Trial and Conviction of Several Reputed Sodomites64A Notorious Gang of Sodomites66The Trial of Lord Duffus for Sodomy67Thomas Rodin, Alias Reading, for Attempting Sodomy69Trial of William Brown71The Trial of Mother Clap for Keeping a Sodomitical House72The Trial of Gabriel Lawrence for Sodomy73The Trial of William Griffin for Sodomy75The Trial of George Kedger for Sodomy77The Trial of Thomas Wright for Sodomy78The Trial of George Whittle for Sodomy80Proposals for Castrating Criminals83A Dissertation upon Flogging84Mr Swinton Accused of Sodomitical Practices85The Wadhamites: A Burlesque Poem100A Court Martial104The King versus Wiseman104A Full and Genuine Narrative of the Confederacy106The Trial of Richard Branson109Short Extracts114Sins of Sodom121Mundus Foppensis124The Levellers126The Women-Hater's Lamentation130The Mollies' Club131Sir Narcissus Foplin134Reasons for the Growth of Sodomy135A Learned Dissertation upon Old Women, Male and Female143A Genuine Narrative147Hell upon Earth147Lord Hervey150A View of the Town151The State of Rome under Nero and Domitian: A Satire152The Pretty Gentleman153Two Young Gentlemen158The Destruction of Sodom Improved161Love in the Suds162The Latin Epitaph on Bob Jones168The Times169The Fruit Shop172The Man-Woman177The Womanish Man179A Dialogue between Cleonarium and Leaena181A Serious Proposal to the Ladies182Sappho183Blest as the Immortal Gods Is He184The Fable of Iphis and Ianthe184Venus in the Cloister; or, the Nun in her Smock187Roxana198Monsieur Thing's Origin198The Unaccountable Wife202Letter from a Young Lady204The Toast207Travels in Turkey209The Progress of Nature210A Spy on Mother Midnight212The History of the Human Heart215Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure216Tonzenie220Catherine Vizzani222A Discovery of a Very Extraordinary Nature234The Adulteress235Glossary237Notes241Bibliography249Index255
