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

通过探索西德尼、斯宾塞、沃斯和卡文迪什的文本中同性恋和性别流动可能性的表现，并确定他们的早期读者受到文艺复兴时期修辞实践的影响，我认为早期现代女性有能力成为早期现代浪漫的“酷儿读者”。我将文艺复兴时期的修辞学（通常包括通过多重性别身份说话）与每个文本的建构读者和女性读者的材料痕迹结合起来，为早期现代酷儿研究和阅读史提供了一种新的方法。

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.