Valerie Traub
University of Michigan, English, Faculty Member
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- Valerie Traub is a Distinguished University Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan, w... moreValerie Traub is a Distinguished University Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan, where she teaches courses on 16th and 17th century sexuality, gender, and race in British literature and culture, as well as feminist methodologies and queer and feminist theory. Among her many books are The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England and Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns. Her most recent edited collections are The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment and the co-edited Ovidian Transversions: Iphis and Ianthe, 1300-1650.edit
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Research Interests: Sociology, Humanities, Sovereignty, Politics, Linguistics, and 13 moreGender and religion (Women s Studies), Friendship, Literary studies, English language and literature, Language Studies, Historical Studies, Download, Renaissance Quarterly, Modern Philology, Parergon, Sixteenth Century, Modern Language, and the sixteenth century
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Page 1. THE REWARDS OF LESBIAN HISTORY VALERIE TRAUB LESBIAN INVISIBILITY "Lesbianism is a theme rarely treated in Latin literature ... though Ovid regards the love of boys as commonplace, love between fe-males is unthinkable... more
Page 1. THE REWARDS OF LESBIAN HISTORY VALERIE TRAUB LESBIAN INVISIBILITY "Lesbianism is a theme rarely treated in Latin literature ... though Ovid regards the love of boys as commonplace, love between fe-males is unthinkable in his world." Roman literature. ...
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... Susan Lanser has located the cultural production of the sapphist in a historical moment when "private intimacies between women ... d have been temporally broad, theoretically inflected studies such as Jonathan DoIIi-d:... more
... Susan Lanser has located the cultural production of the sapphist in a historical moment when "private intimacies between women ... d have been temporally broad, theoretically inflected studies such as Jonathan DoIIi-d: more's Sexual Dissidence, Lee Edelman's Hotnographesis ...
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OAN LARSEN KLEIN's Daughters, Wives, and Widows is a multidisciplinary anthology of texts about women and marriage that "were among those most widely consulted and highly regarded by men and women both in sixteenthand... more
OAN LARSEN KLEIN's Daughters, Wives, and Widows is a multidisciplinary anthology of texts about women and marriage that "were among those most widely consulted and highly regarded by men and women both in sixteenthand seventeenthcentury England" (ix). The book includes the Anglican marriage ceremony and the state's homily on matrimony, a compendium of laws regarding women, a gynecology manual, and pamphlets on housewifery and conduct and concludes with Dorothy Leigh's published "letter of advice" to her sons. The range of selections, most of which are otherwise unavailable in modern editions, together with Klein's brief yet incisive introductions, will make Daughters, Wives, and Widows a much-used text by both scholars and students. Organized according to such categories as "the orthodox stance," "puritan views," and "the cavalier lady," the selections make visible not only reigning orthodoxies but also the heterogeneity that fractured patriarchal ideology: religious discord between Anglicans and Puritans; conflicts between religion, humanism, and the emerging sciences; divergences between practical knowledge and theological precept; and debates within humanism itself. For instance, where the humanist Vives rails against women's "ungoodly crying and unreasonable calling, craving, and bullying" (116), fellow humanist Erasmus asserts, "No man ... had ever a shrew to his wife, but through his own default" (84). Interestingly enough, it is the compilers of law and medicine who of all the male authors represented in this volume are most sympathetic to women,
Research Interests: Cultural Studies, Mathematics, Comedy, Drama, Postmodernism, and 3 moreFemininity, The Renaissance, and Signs
This chapter explores a particular epistemological orientation towards the human body shared by early modern literature, anatomy, and cartography. Beginning with the confluence of anatomical and cartographical metaphors in a range of... more
This chapter explores a particular epistemological orientation towards the human body shared by early modern literature, anatomy, and cartography. Beginning with the confluence of anatomical and cartographical metaphors in a range of literary and visual texts, it scrutinizes pervasive and mutually sustaining analogies among the body, the land, and maps. It then tracks how the discursive intimacy between anatomy and cartography morphed from an analogical relationship into an interactive one. Through a detailed reading of anatomical illustrations, voyage illustrations, and ethnographic country, continent, and world maps, the essay demonstrates that anatomy and cartography produced a graphic idiom of the body dedicated to abstraction and a ‘logic of the grid’. In so doing, they contributed to cognitive conditions that provided the epistemological wherewithal to begin to conceptualize humans by means of classification and comparison, and to apply this systematizing (yet non-binary) habit of thought to diverse populations across the globe.
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... indictment in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night (1603): Disguise, I see, thou art a wickedness Wherein the pregnant enemy does much.... How will this fadge? My master loves her dearly, And I, poor monster, fond as much on him.... more
... indictment in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night (1603): Disguise, I see, thou art a wickedness Wherein the pregnant enemy does much.... How will this fadge? My master loves her dearly, And I, poor monster, fond as much on him. (2.2. 27-34) Not only is cross-dressing presented as ...
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