Hal’s Reviews > Glorious Bodies: Trans Theology and Renaissance Literature > Status Update

oh my god the chapter on donne is so good.

on shakespeare’s sonnet 20: “The paradigm of pricking, then, renders gender into an open-ended process of slipped edges and dropped stitches, raveling and unrav-eling, working and reworking, copying and embellishing, pattern-making and improvising, That is to say, when gender is handmade, it is transitional.” (60)

seriously NO ONE i doing it like colby gordon

“The psychodrama that unfolds when the critic encounters the stimulating possibilities of "concealed sexual identity" is plotted as a process of undress-ing, peeling back the layers of clothing to disclose the "reality" of sex embedded in the body. […] Presented with a Renaissance "cross-dresser," the early modernist can only imagine her clothes dropping to the floor.”

Damn. Yeah.

sometimes you just know a book is going to alter your brain forever. that is this book for me. i just know.