Erotic subjects: the sexuality of politics in early modern English literature

Erotic subjects in English history

"She therein ruling": hagiographic politics in the Countess of Pembroke's arcadia

"Who can loue the worker of her smart?": tyrannous seduction in The faerie queene

"Accessory yieldings": consent without agency in The rape of Lucrece and Pericles

"Love, thou dost master me": political masochism in Mary Wroth's Urania

"It is consent that makes a perfect slave": love and liberty in the Caroline Masque

"Honest Margaret Newcastle": law and desire in Margaret Cavendish's romances

"My self/before me": the erotics of republicanism in Paradise lost

"Lives there who loves his pain?".