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Autore |
Lubey Kathleen <1975-> |
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Titolo |
Excitable imaginations [[electronic resource] ] : eroticism and reading in Britain, 1660-1760 / / Kathleen Lubey |
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Lewisburg, Pa., : Bucknell University Press |
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Lanham, Md., : Co-published with The Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, c2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-299-35654-0 |
1-61148-441-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (287 p.) |
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Collana |
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Transits : literature, thought & culture |
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Soggetti |
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Erotic literature, English - History and criticism |
English literature - 18th century - History and criticism |
English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism |
Eroticism in literature |
Sex in literature |
Imagination in literature |
Literature and morals |
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Excitable Imaginations; CONTENTS; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Eroticism and the Eighteenth-Century Imagination; 1 Imperfect Enjoyments: Errors of the Imagination in Restoration England; 2 "Too Great Warmth": Joseph Addison, Eliza Haywood, and the Pleasures of Reading; 3 "Something Greatly Awful": What Sex Does in Early Novels; 4 Sex as Form: The Aesthetic Pedagogies of John Cleland and William Hogarth; Coda: Philosophy's Erotic Forms; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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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