Queering the History of Reading: Women Readers, Female Homoeroticism and Trans Possibility in Renaissance Romance

通过探讨西德尼，斯宾塞，Wroth和卡文迪什的文本中同性恋和genderfluid的可能性的表示，并确定其早期读者的影响文艺复兴时期的修辞实践，我认为早期现代女性的能力是早期现代浪漫的“酷儿读者”。我结合联合收割机文艺复兴时期的修辞，其中往往包括通过多个性别身份说话，与每个文本的建构读者（S）和女性读者的物质痕迹，提供一个新的方法，早期现代酷儿研究和阅读的历史。

By exploring representations of homoerotic and genderfluid possibility in texts by Sidney,Spenser, Wroth, and Cavendish, and identifying their early readership as influenced byRenaissance rhetorical practices, I argue for the ability of early modern women to be 'queerreaders' of early modern romance. I combine Renaissance rhetoric, which often includedspeaking through multiple gendered identities, with each text's constructed reader(s) and thematerial traces of female readers to offer a new methodology to early modern queer studiesand the history of reading.