Queer Renaissance Historiography (queer Interventions)

Queer Renaissance Historiography Backward Gaze Edited by Vin Nardizzi, Stephen Guy-Bray and Will Stockton Queer Renaissance Historiography Queer Interventions Series editors: Noreen Giffney The University of Limerick, Ireland and Michael O’Rourke Queer Interventions is an exciting, fresh and unique new series designed to publish innovative, experimental and theoretically engaged work in the burgeoning field of queer studies. The aim of the series is to interrogate, develop and challenge queer theory, publishing queer work which intersects with other theoretical schools and is accessible whilst valuing difficulty; empirical work which is metatheoretical in focus; ethical and political projects and most importantly work which is self-reflexive about methodological and geographical location. The series is interdisciplinary in focus and publishes monographs and collections of essays by new and established scholars. The editors intend the series to promote and maintain high scholarly standards of research and to be attentive to queer theory’s shortcomings, silences, hegemonies and exclusions. They aim to encourage independence, creativity and experimentation: to make a queer theory that matters and to recreate it as something important; a space where new and exciting things can happen. Titles in this series: Queer Movie Medievalisms Kathleen Coyne Kelly and Tison Pugh ISBN: 978-0-7546-7592-1 Jewish/Christian/Queer Frederick Roden ISBN: 978-0-7546-7375-0 Queering the Non/Human Noreen Giffney and Myra J. Hird ISBN: 978-0-7546-7128-2 Cinesexuality Patricia MacCormack ISBN: 978-0-7546-7175-6 Queer Attachments Sally R. Munt ISBN: 978-0-7546-4921-2 ISBN: 978-0-7546-4923-6 (pbk) Queer Renaissance Historiography Backward Gaze Edited by Vin Nardizzi University of British Columbia, Canada Stephen Guy-Bray University of British Columbia, Canada Will Stockton Ball State University, USA © Vin Nardizzi, Stephen Guy-Bray and Will Stockton 2009 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. Vin Nardizzi, Stephen Guy-Bray and Will Stockton have asserted their right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the editors of this work. Published by Ashgate Publishing Limited Ashgate Publishing Company Wey Court East Suite 420 Union Road 101 Cherry Street Farnham Burlington Surrey, GU9 7PT VT 05401-4405 England USA www.ashgate.com British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Queer Renaissance historiography : backward gaze. -- (Queer   interventions)   1. English literature--16th century--History and criticism.   2. Homosexuality in literature. 3. Eroticism in literature.   4. Queer theory.  I. Series II. Nardizzi, Vin. III. Guy-Bray, Stephen.  IV. Stockton, Will.   820.9'3538'09031-dc22 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Queer Renaissance historiography : backward gaze / [edited] by Vin Nardizzi, Stephen Guy-Bray and Will Stockton.    p. cm. -- (Queer interventions)  Includes bibliographical references and index.  ISBN 978-0-7546-7608-9 -- ISBN 978-0-7546-9795-4 (ebook)  1.  Homosexuality--Great Britain--History. 2.  Homosexuality in literature. 3. Renaissance. I. Nardizzi, Vincent Joseph, 1978- II. Guy-Bray, Stephen. III. Stockton, Will.   HQ76.3.G7Q84 2009   306.76'6094109031–dc22 ISBN 978-0-7546-7608-9 (hbk) ISBN 978-0-7546-9795-4 (ebk.V) 2009017773 Contents List of Figures Series Editors’ Preface: Renaissance Sextualities Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements 1 Queer Renaissance Historiography: Backward Gaze Stephen Guy-Bray, Vin Nardizzi, and Will Stockton 2 A Hundred Years of Queering the Renaissance Will Fisher 3 Beyond