The Affectionate Shepherd: Celebrating Richard Barnfield

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Susquehanna University Press, 2001 - 388 pages
Despite various influential writers' and critics' high praise of the poetry of Richard Barnfield (1574-1620/26?), his work has long been marginalized in English literary history because of its pervasive homoeroticism. Current interest in literary representations of gender and sexuality, in dissent from dominant ideologies, and in the early modern possibilities of same-sexual subjectivities, accounts for the renewed interest in Barnfield's poetry. This new collection of essays seeks to provide a forum for his evaluation and reinterpretation in accord with his topicality for literary studies today.

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Acknowledgments and Note on Documentation 79
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Barnfields Reception
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Barnfields Feast of all
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