Vai al contenuto principale della pagina

Sexual antipodes : enlightenment globalization and the placing of sex / / Pamela Cheek



(Visualizza in formato marc)    (Visualizza in BIBFRAME)

Autore: Cheek Pamela Visualizza persona
Titolo: Sexual antipodes : enlightenment globalization and the placing of sex / / Pamela Cheek Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Stanford, : Stanford University Press, 2003
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (260 p.)
Disciplina: 820.9/3538
Soggetto topico: English literature - 18th century - History and criticism
Erotic literature, English - History and criticism
Sex in literature
French literature - 18th century - History and criticism
Travelers' writings, English - History and criticism
Travelers' writings, French - History and criticism
Erotic literature, French - History and criticism
Comparative literature - English and French
Comparative literature - French and English
Globalization - History - 18th century
Imperialism in literature
Sex customs in literature
Colonies in literature
Enlightenment
Soggetto geografico: Oceania In literature
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-236) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I. METROPOLITAN ALLEGORIES -- 1. National Character, Publicity and Sex -- 2. Public Women in the French Body Politic -- 3. Public Life in Enlightenment Pornography -- PART 2. ANTIPODES -- 4. The Sexual Nature of South Sea Islands -- 5. British Encounter: Recognizing Sensibility -- 6. French Encounter: Crafting Transparency -- Notes -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: Sexual Antipodes is about how Enlightenment print culture built modern national and racial identity out of images of sexual order and disorder in public life. It examines British and French popular journalism, utopian fiction and travel accounts about South Sea encounter, pamphlet literature, and pornography, as well as more traditional literary sources on the eighteenth century, such as the novel and philosophical essays and tales. The title refers to a premise in utopian and exoticist fiction about the southern portion of the globe: sexual order defines the character of the state. The book begins by examining how the idea of sexual order operated as the principle for explaining national differences in eighteenth-century contestation between Britain and France. It then traces how, following British and French encounters with Tahiti, the comparison of different national sexual orders formed the basis for two theories of race: race as essential character and race as degeneration.
Titolo autorizzato: Sexual antipodes  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8047-8030-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910826729403321
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
Opac: Controlla la disponibilità qui