Erotic Discourses in History, Culture and the Arts

This book examines the entanglement of erotic desire with political, cultural, and historical change. It explores how sex, sexuality, and eroticism both shape and are shaped by historical narratives. This book will be of value to students of history, literary and cultural studies, gender and sexuality studies, art history, and queer theory.

Aleksandra Musiä-Pude-ko is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Literary Studies, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. Nina Augustynowicz is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Literary Studies, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. Agnieszka Podruczna is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Literary Studies, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland.

Introduction, Aleksandra Musiä-Pude-ko, Nina Augustynowicz, and Agnieszka Podruczna Part I: Secrets and the Unspeakable 1. Male Sexuality and Erotic Pleasure in Greek Autobiographical Discourses of the 1870s, Dimitra Vassiliadou 2. Infectious Corruption: Sexual Violence in Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White and Sarah Waters's Fingersmith, Justyna Jajszczok Part II: Colonial Anxieties and Regimes of Desire 3. Seminal Debates: Masculinity, Male Fertility, and Impotence in Early Colonial New Spain (1550-1620), Jacqueline Holler 4. "Dreams of Ends": History, Sex, and Storytelling in J.M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians, Albany Murdoch 5. Queer Temporalities: Mediating Desire Through the Historical Account in Postcolonial Speculative Fiction, Agnieszka Podruczna Part III: Regulation and Education 6. Surveillance of Homosexual Priests Under the Legal and Regulatory Discourses of People's Poland, Agnieszka Laddach 7. Framing Sexuality: Media Liberalization and State Oversight in Post- Independence Lithuania, Kotryna B--i-t- 8. "Margaret Thatcher Has Basically Made Me Pro-Blow Job": Teenage Sexuality, Thatcherism, and (Post)feminism in How to Build a Girl, Nina Augustynowicz 9. "You and Me and History": Queer Romance and Liberal Fantasy in Casey McQuiston's Red, White & Royal Blue, Aleksandra Musiä-Pude-ko Part IV: Resistance and Celebration 10. Eroticism as Resistance and Subversion: The Case of the "Three Marias" and Their Book New Portuguese Letters, Ricardo Rato Rodrigues 11. Sense and Sexuality of the Female Body: Women's Subversion of Patriarchy in the Studio, Lawrence Buttigieg 12. The Gift in Lube: Derrida, Foucault, and Fisting, Killian O' Dwyer