04017oam 2200685I 450 991046256560332120200520144314.01-136-18237-30-203-08295-810.4324/9780203082959 (CKB)2670000000357841(EBL)1186404(SSID)ssj0000873151(PQKBManifestationID)12431011(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000873151(PQKBWorkID)10865336(PQKB)10720626(MiAaPQ)EBC1186404(Au-PeEL)EBL1186404(CaPaEBR)ebr10699409(CaONFJC)MIL487116(OCoLC)843642534(OCoLC)842881944(EXLCZ)99267000000035784120180706d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSex and death in eighteenth-century literature /edited by Jolene ZigarovichNew York ;London :Routledge,2013.1 online resource (652 p.)Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature ;10Description based upon print version of record.0-415-64003-2 Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.Cover; Title Information; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I Marriage and Grave Plots; 1 The Wages of Sanctity: Fatal Consequences of Marriage and Motherhood in the Eighteenth-Century Gothic Novel; 2 Corkscrews and Courtesans: Sex and Death in Circulation Novels; 3 Courting Death: Necrophilia in Samuel Richardson's Clarissa; 4 Venus Dissected: The Visual Blazon of Mid-Eighteenth Century Medical Atlases; Part II Sexual and Mortal Fantasies5 The Temptation of Alexander Pope: Materialism and Sexual Fantasy in 'Eloisa to Abelard'6 Trading Sex for Secrets in Eliza Haywood's Love in Excess; 7 Sex, Madness and Suicide in Sir Herbert Croft's Love and Madness; 8 Erotic Death Machines: Sex and Execution in James Boswell's Writing; Part III Gothic Difference; 9 Between Life and Death: Representing Necrophilia, Medicine, and the Figure of the Intercessor in M.G. Lewis's The Monk; 10 "Out of Tune": Sex, Death, and Gothic Disharmony in Eighteenth-Century Scotland; 11 Psychodrama: Hypertheatricality and Sexual Excess on the Gothic Stage12 Sex, Sodomy, and Death Sentences in the Long Eighteenth CenturyAfterword; Contributors; IndexThis book discusses sex and death in the eighteenth-century, an era that among other forms produced the Gothic novel, commencing the prolific examination of the century's shifting attitudes toward death and uncovering literary moments in which sexuality and death often conjoined. By bringing together various viewpoints and historical relations, the volume contributes to an emerging field of study and provides new perspectives on the ways in which the century approached an increasingly modern sense of sexuality and mortality. It not only provides part of the needed discussion of the relationRoutledge studies in eighteenth-century literature ;10.English literature18th centuryHistory and criticismSex in literatureDeath in literatureGothic fiction (Literary genre), EnglishHistory and criticismElectronic books.English literatureHistory and criticism.Sex in literature.Death in literature.Gothic fiction (Literary genre), EnglishHistory and criticism.820.9/353Zigarovich Jolene1970-893330MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910462565603321Sex and death in eighteenth-century literature1995569UNINA