The Affectionate Shepherd: Celebrating Richard BarnfieldDespite various influential writers' and critics' high praise of the poetry of Richard Barnfield (1574-1620/26?), his work has long been marginalized in English literary history because of its pervasive homoeroticism. Current interest in literary representations of gender and sexuality, in dissent from dominant ideologies, and in the early modern possibilities of same-sexual subjectivities, accounts for the renewed interest in Barnfield's poetry. This new collection of essays seeks to provide a forum for his evaluation and reinterpretation in accord with his topicality for literary studies today. |
Contents
The Question of Topical Allusion in Richard Barnfields Pastoral Verse | 45 |
Barnfields Penelope Devereux Exalted and Reviled | 62 |
Great Collin and the Art of Denial | 85 |
Barnfields Homoerotic Appropriation of the Song of Solomon | 99 |
Pastoral Homoeroticism and Barnfield the Affectionate Shepherd | 117 |
Rereading Homoerotic Desire in Barnfields Ganymede Poems | 130 |
Linguistic and Erotic Failure in The Affectionate Shepheard | 149 |
Barnfields Lovers Discourse | 174 |
Barnfields Variations on the Theme of Avarice in Lady Pecunia | 251 |
Montague Summers and the Replevin of Richard Barnfield | 265 |
Orpheus at the Inns of Court | 283 |
The Case for Richard Barnfields Orpheus | 305 |
Richard Barnfields Homosocial Engineering in Orpheus His Journey to Hell | 332 |
Notes on Contributors | 361 |
Works Cited | 364 |
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