Before intimacy : asocial sexuality in early modern England / Daniel Juan Gil.

Minneapolis ; London : University of Minnesota Press, [2006], ©2006.

xvi, 187 pages ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-180) and index.

The social structure of passion -- Intimacy and the eroticism of social distance : Sidney's Astrophil and Stella and Spenser's Amoretti -- Civility and the emotional topography of The Faerie queene -- At the limits of the social world : fear and pride in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida -- Poetic autonomy and the history of sexuality in Shakespeare's sonnets.