The Kinky Renaissance

Gillian Knoll is associate professor of English at Western Kentucky University and the author of Conceiving Desire: Metaphor, Cognition, and Eros in Lyly and Shakespeare. Joseph Gamble is assistant professor of English at the University of Toledo and the author of Sex Lives: Intimate Infrastructures in Early Modernity.

Introduction . A Renaissance of Kink, by Joseph Gamble and Gillian Knoll

Part One: Revising Critical Narratives
Chapter 1. “Mishapen Stuffe”: Pleasure and Restraint in Marlowe’s Hero and Leander, by James Yukiko Mulder
Chapter 2. Cuckold Communities in the Kinky Early Modern, by Erika Lyn Carbonara
Chapter 3. Kinky Herrick, by Gina Filo

Part Two: Sexual Ethics
Chapter 4. The Taming of the Shrew and Sex “in the midst of the street,” by Erin E. Kelly
Chapter 5. “What pretty new device”: Bondage and Liminality in Beaumont and Fletcher’s The Maid’s Tragedy, by Nathaniel C. Leonard
Chapter 6. Shakespeare’s (Into) Race Play, by Kirk Quinsland

Part Three: Representational Quandaries and Kinky Solutions
Chapter 7. Early Modern Money Shots, by Beatrice Bradley
Chapter 8. Fletcher’s Golden Showers, by Heather Frazier
Chapter 9. Pandora, Kneeling, by Gillian Knoll

Conclusion. Aftercare, by Christine Varnado