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Before Pornography explores the relationship between erotic writing, masculinity, and national identity in Renaissance England. Drawing on both manuscripts and printed texts, and incorporating insights from modern feminist theory and queer studies, the book argues that pornography is a historical phenomenon: while the representation of sexual activity exists in nearly all cultures, pornography does not. The book includes analyses of the social significance of eroticism in such canonical texts as Sidney's Defense of Poesy and Spenser's Faerie Queene.
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Mark James
reviewed Before Pornography: Erotic Writing in Early Modern England on June 25, 2016
Before Pornography: Erotic Writing in Early Modern England
As Moulton remarks in his introduction, much academic work has been done on the use of sexuality and the erotic in Renaissance play-texts but, surprisingly, the function of the erotic in Renaissance poetry and prose has been significantly under-studied.
Moulton's introduction is excellent as he probes the differences between the literary erotic and the pornographic, and situates both within their historicised contexts.
He then goes on to look at specific instances of Renaissance literary eroticism, specifically the Aretino imitations that were fashionable and popular around the 1590s. Moulton is specifically interested in the way the erotic is used to negotiate issues around national identity and, to a lesser extent, masculinity.
As a monograph, this is not - and never intends to be - a broad study of Renaissance erotics, so if it is somewhat limited that isn't the book's or the author's fault. Well-argued, intellectually-stimulating and elegantly-written, this is one of the books that re-opens the issue of the erotic in literature.
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