Love Is in the Air: Reading Desire as Field in Hero and Leander

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dc.contributor.advisorBovilsky, Lara
dc.contributor.authorSteinfeld, Vincent
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-04T20:48:48Z
dc.date.issued2022-10-04
dc.description.abstractChristopher Marlowe’s Hero and Leander presents rich opportunities for understanding early modern sexuality and emotions. In the poem, hyperbolic representations of desire between beings of varying ontological status convey a mechanics of interpersonal emotions alien to many modern conceptions of self-experience—namely those that view emotions as individuated, willed, and internal phenomena. In the poem, I argue, desire affects all kinds of beings in the form of an ambient field, creating an array of nonanthropocentric and nonheterosexual sexual encounters. Each encounter troubles the ways in which desire, seduction, and the fulfillment of pleasure often occur along predetermined socialized patterns. In this thesis I explore how Marlowe’s renderings of desire and seduction, while at times outlandish and hyperbolic, illustrate an underlying structure of emotion that is nonindividuated, external, and, ultimately, nonhuman.en_US
dc.description.embargo2024-08-09
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/27662
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregon
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved.
dc.subjectEarly Modernen_US
dc.subjectHero and Leanderen_US
dc.subjectMarlowe Christopheren_US
dc.subjectPosthumanismen_US
dc.subjectQueer Theoryen_US
dc.titleLove Is in the Air: Reading Desire as Field in Hero and Leander
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation
thesis.degree.disciplineDepartment of English
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Oregon
thesis.degree.levelmasters
thesis.degree.nameM.A.

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