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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797537603321

Autore

Kelleher Paul

Titolo

Making love : sentiment and sexuality in eighteenth-century British literature / / Paul Kelleher

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Bucknell University Press : , : Copublished by The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Incorporated, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

1-61148-694-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (271 p.)

Collana

Transits: literature, thought & culture, 1650-1850

Disciplina

820.9/3538

Soggetti

English literature - 18th century - History and criticism

Sentimentalism in literature

Sex role in literature

Love in literature

Literature and society - Great Britain - History - 18th century

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

CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1: SHAFTESBURY AND THE BEAUTY OF VIRTUE; 2: LOVE WITHIN REASON; 3: LOVE IN EXCESS AND THE ECSTASY OF SYMPATHY; 4: PAMELA AND THE PASSION FOR VIRTUE; 5: TOM JONES AND THE VIRTUES OF SEXUALITY; AFTERWORD; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Sommario/riassunto

Making Love closely reexamines the literary history of sentimentalism in order to open up new ways of understanding the history of sexuality.