Kathleen Lubey

Excitable Imaginations

Eroticism and Reading in Britain, 1660-1760

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Produktbeschreibung

Excitable Imaginations offers a new approach to the history of pornography. Looking beyond a counter-canon of bawdy literature, Kathleen Lubey identifies a vigilant attentiveness to sex across a wide spectrum of literary and philosophical texts in eighteenth-century Britain.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bucknell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9781611484403
• ISBN-10: 1611484405
• Artikelnr.: 36533396

Autorenporträt

By Kathleen Lubey

Inhaltsangabe

Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Eroticism and the Eighteenth-Century
Imagination Chapter 1 Imperfect Enjoyments: Errors of the Imagination in
Restoration England Chapter 2 "Too great Warmth": Joseph Addison, Eliza
Haywood, and the Pleasures of Reading Chapter 3 "Something greatly awful":
What Sex Does in Early Novels Chapter 4 Sex as Form: The Aesthetic
Pedagogies of John Cleland and William Hogarth Coda Philosophy's Erotic
Forms Notes Bibliography Index