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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779578703321

Autore

Lubey Kathleen <1975->

Titolo

Excitable imaginations [[electronic resource] ] : eroticism and reading in Britain, 1660-1760 / / Kathleen Lubey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lewisburg, Pa., : Bucknell University Press

Lanham, Md., : Co-published with The Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, c2012

ISBN

1-299-35654-0

1-61148-441-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (287 p.)

Collana

Transits : literature, thought & culture

Disciplina

820.9/3538

Soggetti

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.)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.