ERECTED WIT AND EFFEMINATE REPOSE: PHILIP SIDNEY'S POSTURES OF READER-RESPONSE

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Despite Philip Sidney's celebration in An Apology for Poetry of an aggressively masculine reader who should approach a given text with the aim of discovering in it moral maxims and examples of noble conduct, there is an undercurrent of anxious concern in the essay that reading poetry effeminizes men just as polemicists such as Stephen Gosson claimed. This is because 'Poesy' visits upon male readers of imaginative fiction an experience of subjection, of domination even, that is both profoundly pleasurable and disruptive of the adamantine and self-regulating masculine consciousness prescribed and idealized by pedagogical authorities in the period.

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