Gina Filo is an assistant professor of English at Utah State University.

"With dazzling readings of poems that often rival their lyricism and careful attention to scholarship, Shattering the Self in Early Modern English Verse is a necessary contribution to the fields of gender and sexuality studies." - Vin Nardizzi, University of British Columbia "Filo's brilliant and bold study urges the self's disarticulation among queer environments, making a passionate case for poetry that pushes the human envelope. An essential contribution to early modern gender and sexuality studies and ecocriticism." - Steven Swarbrick, Baruch College, City University of New York

• Introduction: Sex, Gender, and the Human Self in Early Modern England 1. (Gender)Queering the Family in Venus and Adonis 2. The Erotics of Genderqueerness and the Genderqueerness of Eroticism in Donne's Secular Lyric 3. Botanical Eroticism and the Limits of the Human in Herrick and Marvell 4. The Body of Christ in Richard Crashaw 5. Bodies, Boundaries, and Bliss in Thomas Traherne's Poetry Coda: What Now? Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

Gina Filo is an assistant professor of English at Utah State University.

"With dazzling readings of poems that often rival their lyricism and careful attention to scholarship, Shattering the Self in Early Modern English Verse is a necessary contribution to the fields of gender and sexuality studies." - Vin Nardizzi, University of British Columbia "Filo's brilliant and bold study urges the self's disarticulation among queer environments, making a passionate case for poetry that pushes the human envelope. An essential contribution to early modern gender and sexuality studies and ecocriticism." - Steven Swarbrick, Baruch College, City University of New York

• Introduction: Sex, Gender, and the Human Self in Early Modern England 1. (Gender)Queering the Family in Venus and Adonis 2. The Erotics of Genderqueerness and the Genderqueerness of Eroticism in Donne's Secular Lyric 3. Botanical Eroticism and the Limits of the Human in Herrick and Marvell 4. The Body of Christ in Richard Crashaw 5. Bodies, Boundaries, and Bliss in Thomas Traherne's Poetry Coda: What Now? Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

Gina Filo is an assistant professor of English at Utah State University.

"With dazzling readings of poems that often rival their lyricism and careful attention to scholarship, Shattering the Self in Early Modern English Verse is a necessary contribution to the fields of gender and sexuality studies." - Vin Nardizzi, University of British Columbia "Filo's brilliant and bold study urges the self's disarticulation among queer environments, making a passionate case for poetry that pushes the human envelope. An essential contribution to early modern gender and sexuality studies and ecocriticism." - Steven Swarbrick, Baruch College, City University of New York

• Introduction: Sex, Gender, and the Human Self in Early Modern England 1. (Gender)Queering the Family in Venus and Adonis 2. The Erotics of Genderqueerness and the Genderqueerness of Eroticism in Donne's Secular Lyric 3. Botanical Eroticism and the Limits of the Human in Herrick and Marvell 4. The Body of Christ in Richard Crashaw 5. Bodies, Boundaries, and Bliss in Thomas Traherne's Poetry Coda: What Now? Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index