Excitable imaginations : eroticism and reading in Britain, 1660-1760 / / Kathleen Lubey

• Autore: Lubey Kathleen <1975->
• Pubblicazione: Lewisburg, Pa., : Bucknell University Press; Lanham, Md., : Co-published with The Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, c2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (287 p.)
• Disciplina: 820.9/3538
• Soggetto topico: 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.)
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Excitable imaginations
• ISBN: 1-299-35654-0; 1-61148-441-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910823944903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Transits (Bucknell University)