Berkeley English Faculty

James Grantham Turner

James D Hart Professor

Wheeler Hall 333
Mondays 12:30-3:30 or by appointment ... welcome emails
grantham@berkeley.edu
5106422749

Specialties

Books

	The Villa Farnesina, Palace of Venus in Renaissance Rome The frescoes of Peruzzi, Raphael and Sodoma still dazzle visitors to the Villa Farnesina, but they survive in a stripped-down environment bereft of its landscape, sealed so it cannot breathe. Turner takes you outside that box, restoring these canonic....(read more)
	One Flesh: Paradisal Marriage and Sexual Relations in the Age of Milton How did the myth of Adam and Eve affect historical understandings of sex and gender? Was sexuality the 'true Paradise' or the destroying serpent? These questions came to a head in Milton, torn between eroticism and hatred of the flesh, between patria....(read more) FIELDS: Renaissance and Early Modern Gender & Sexuality Studies
	Eros Visible: Art, Sexuality and Antiquity in Renaissance Italy Focusing on the impact of the erotic revolution that swept through 16th-century Italy, Eros Visible presents a compendious, revisionist account of High Renaissance art. Through close visual analysis of artworks and careful reading of related texts, J....(read more) FIELDS: Cultural Studies Gender & Sexuality Studies
	Schooling Sex: Libertine Literature and Erotic Education in Italy, France, and England 1534-1685 How did Casanova learn the `theory' of sex? Why did male pornographers write as intellectual women? What forms of sexuality emerged in the age of educational, scientific, and political revolution? To answer, Schooling Sex reconstructs the vivid and ....(read more) FIELDS: Renaissance and Early Modern Gender & Sexuality Studies
	The Politics of Landscape: Rural Scenery and Society in English Poetry, l630-l660 Artists, poets, agriculturalists and political theorists construct the imaginary countryside of England while the country itself, from landowner to peasant, tears itself apart in the Civil War. Awarded the Thomas J. Wilson Prize, l979....(read more) FIELDS: Cultural Studies Renaissance and Early Modern Poetry
	Libertines and Radicals in Early Modern London: Sexuality, Politics and Literary Culture, 1630-1685 A `Deluge of Libertinism' swept through England in the turbulent seventeenth century: class- and gender-relations went into deep crisis - and sexually-explicit literature took the blame. Turner reads Civil War and Restoration porno-political satire ....(read more) FIELDS: Renaissance and Early Modern Gender & Sexuality Studies

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