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

• Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
• Verlag: RLPG/Galleys
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 418g
• ISBN-13: 9781611485868
• ISBN-10: 161148586X
• Artikelnr.: 40728439

Autorenporträt

Kathleen Lubey is associate professor of English at St. John's University.

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