'Valerie Traub' in OBA Collectie

What do we know about early modern sex? And how do we know it? How, when, and why does sex become history? In Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns, Valerie Traub addresses these questions and, in doing so, reorients the ways in which historians and liter...

Medieval and early modern authors engaged with Ovid's tale of 'Iphis and Ianthe' in a number of surprising ways. From Christian translations to secular retellings on the seventeenth-century stage, Ovid's story of a girl's miraculous transformation into...

The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England is the eagerly-awaited study by the feminist scholar who was among the first to address the issue of early modern female homoeroticism. Valerie Traub analyzes the representation of female-female love...

How are romantic and erotic relationships between women represented in the literature of the long eighteenth century? How does Sapphism surface in other contemporary discourses, including politics, pornography, economics and art? After more than a gener...

Articles- Introduction: The Work of Friendship / Jody Greene. p. 319.- Friendship's Loss: Alan Bray's Making of History/ Valerie Traub. p. 339.- Toward a Queer Address: The Taste of Letters and Early Modern Male Friendship / Jeffrey Masten. p. 367.- Lov...