Bücher von Jonathan Goldberg

These essays investigate the materiality of the world in Spenser, Cary and Marlowe; its sociability, sexuality and sovereignty in Shakespeare; and the universality of spirit, gender and empire in Vaughan, Donne and the dastan (tale) of Chouboli, a Rastanjani princess.

Offering a new queer theorization of melodrama, Jonathan Goldberg explores the ways melodramatic film and literature provide an aesthetics of impossibility and how melodrama as a whole provides queer ways to promote identifications that exceed the bounds of the identity categories that regulate and constrain social life.

Translates one of the many ways in which Lucretius names the basic matter from which the world is made in De rerum natura. This book should be of concern to students of religion, and sexuality, especially as they impinge on questions of representation. It emphasizes the consequences for thinking about sexuality offered by Lucretian materialism.

A bold and important collection, surveying how the view of homosexual activities as socially dangerous has been perpetuated by the state, the church, the law and other institutions. A much- needed contribution to studies on sexuality.