 | Wanton Words: Rhetoric and Sexuality in English Renaissance Drama Subjects: Sex in literature; Sex and language -- England -- History -- 16th century; English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan -- 1500–1600 -- History and criticism; Menon introduces rhetoric into the largely medico-juridical realm of studies on Renaissance sexuality. In doing so, she suggests that rhetoric allows us to think through the erotics of language in ways that pay most attention to the frisson of English Renaissance drama. Menon Madhavi : Madhavi Menon is an assistant professor in the Department of English at Ithaca College. |
