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Article: Queer/Early/Modern.(Book review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
- Article date:
- December 22, 2006
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Carla Freccero. Queer/Early/Modern.
Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. x + 182 pp. index. bibl. $74.95. (cl), $21.95 (pbk). ISBN: 0-8223-3678-2 (cl), 0-8223-3690-1 (pbk).
For scholars working on gender in early modern texts, this book is both a useful synthesis of some of the most significant texts in postmodern-gender-queer theory and an original use of these texts to elaborate subtle, complex, and flexible readings of early modern texts. A significant portion of the argument of this book is based on psychoanalytic theories of identity formation and, in particular, the central role of melancholy in this process. But Freccero also uses Foucault's ...