Enlightened virginity in eighteenth-century literature / / Corrinne Harol

• Autore: Harol Corrinne
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (248 p.)
• Disciplina: 820.9/353
• Soggetto topico: English literature - 18th century - History and criticism; Virginity in literature
• Altri autori: HarolCorrinne
• Note generali: Originally published as the author's thesis (doctoral-Univ. of Calif., Los Angeles) under the title: Novel virgins.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-221) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Enlightened Virginity in Eighteenth-Century Literature -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Virginity and Patrilinear Legitimacy -- Chapter 1 Blessed Virgins: Anti-Catholic Propaganda and Convent Fantasies -- Chapter 2 The Hymen and Its Discontents: Medical Discourses on Virginity -- Chapter 3 Hymen Humor: Ballads and the Matter of Virginity -- Chapter 4 Virgin Idols and Verbal Devices: Pope's Belinda and the Virgin Mary -- Chapter 5 Faking It: Virtue, Satire, and Pamela's Virginity -- Chapter 6 Novel Virgins: Libertine and Literary Pleasures in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure -- Conclusion: Clarissa's Exceptional Infertility -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Enlightened Virginity in Eighteenth-Century Literature analyzes the history of the English virgin at the height of her celebrity. In so doing, it presents new arguments about the early English novel and its relationship to science, religion, and feminist theory.
• Titolo autorizzato: Enlightened virginity in eighteenth-century literature
• ISBN: 1-281-36585-8; 9786611365851; 1-4039-8365-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910827362703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II